A senior Japanese official’s suggestion that Japan should possess nuclear weapons has reignited debate over whether the country could—or would—break with a decades-old taboo in response to an ...

China's military mouthpiece claims Tokyo has 'astonishing' stockpile of nuclear materials and the tech to produce weapons ...

Experts have raised concerns in a new report about Japan's evolving position on nuclear weapons, highlighting tensions ...

Japan’s long-standing status as a non-nuclear power is under fresh scrutiny after a report argued that the country could assemble its own nuclear weapons within roughly three years. The claim has ...

TOKYO, Dec 19 (Reuters) - Japan reaffirmed its decades-old pledge never to possess nuclear weapons on Friday after local media reported that a senior security official suggested the country should ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Japan's export of lethal weapons sent an "extremely dangerous signal" indicating expanded military capabilities, Chinese observers ...

Eighty years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, many of the remaining Japanese survivors are increasingly frustrated by growing nuclear threats and the acceptance of nuclear weapons ...

The United States and Japan have formulated their first guidelines for extended deterrence, which include the possible employment of the U.S.'s nuclear weapons, amid persistent threats posed to the ...

Japanese police have confiscated metal tubes, tools and possible gunpowder from the home of a man suspected of throwing what was believed to be a homemade pipe bomb at Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at ...