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Examines Japan's nuclear status & how it impacts national, regional, & international security. Discussion begins by chronicling the historical development of Japan's nonnuclear weapons policy as well as outlining a couple of analyses of Japan's nuclearization. The debate has taken on new vigor since 2001, driven in part by shifts in the regional & international security environment: the North Korean threat, erosion of the international nuclear proliferation regime, US nuclear policy & the perceived usability of new nuclear weapons, & Japanese assertiveness in military operations, which accords with the Bush administration's tendency to stress military power. Pro & con arguments in the nuclearization debate are then presented before considering the probability that Japan might go nuclear. Concluding that Japan is unlikely to go nuclear in the near future, measures that might reduce this possibility in the long term are presented: resolve the North Korean nuclear issue, strengthen the nonproliferation regime, diminish the role of nuclear weapons, modify Japan's security policy, & strengthen Japan's nuclear disarmament policy. Japan must find mechanism's other than military power to back up its security if it is to remain nonnuclear. Adapted from the source document.

Beyond the 1995 NPT Conference : a Japanese View, by Mitsuru Kurosawa
Nuclear weapons evoke a profound hostility in Japan. Although the Japanese have been the only victims of nuclear weapons in history, Japan has long since been under the American nuclear umbrella. Japan is thus in favour of the complete elimination of nuclear weapons, and of the abolition of discrimination bet-ween NWS and NNWS. Japan's energy security, however, requires full access to the peaceful uses of nuclear technology. Japan thus supported the unlimited extension of the NPT, and intends to put to rest any suspicions as to its own nuclear intentions. Japan, which also aspires to a permanent seat on the UN Security Council, should put it to good use in playing a major role in disarmament affairs, along with such NNWS as Canada and Australia, and by seeking the dénucléarisation of North East Asia.

This collection of essays, written by scholars and policymakers from Canada, Japan and the United States, explores their countries' evolving alliance and illustrates the growing strength in its collective global leadership.

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