The Japanese government suggested that it would allow the US to bring nuclear weapons into Japanese territory in the event of a serious threat to its security.
Little do they know or realize apparently that happens already on a regular and consistent basis now in the form of sea launched nuclear weapons with the rotation of various U.S. naval ships in and out of Japan, including nuclear attack submarines.
Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida outlined conditions that would lead Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government to make exceptions to Japan’s longstanding posture against possessing, producing, or allowing nuclear weapons within the nation’s borders, Kyodo News reported.
Whether or not Japan would “adamantly observe the (non-nuclear) principles despite threats to people’s safety depends on the decision of the administration in power”, according to the report.
“The future cannot be determined in advance,” Kishida said, echoing comments by former Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada of the current opposition Democratic Party of Japan.
Source: US May get official nod to bring in nukes in emergency http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/14/national/u-s-may-get-official-nod-to-bring-in-nukes-in-emergency/
In 2010, Okada disclosed that Japan and the US had agreements during the Cold War era in which Tokyo would allow the US to bring nuclear-armed submarines into Japanese ports in an apparent violation of the non-nuclear policy.
Something that doesn’t sit well with many Japanese who are opposed to nuclear weapons and U.S. policy of perpetual war around the world, especially in Afghanistan – where the U.S. has spent the last decade involved in a war without any real end that has killed tens of thousands of people, mostly civilians.
During World War II the U.S. Army Air Forces launched two B-29 Superfortress loaded with atomic bombs, which were used on Japan in the form of two powerful uranium gun-type atomic bomb (Little Boy) dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, followed by a plutonium implosion-type bomb (Fat Man) on the city of Nagasaki on August 9.
The resulting bombings shocked the entire world and killed between 90,000–166,000 people in Hiroshima and 60,000–80,000 in Nagasaki; roughly half of the deaths in each city occurred on the first day.
During the following months, large numbers of human beings suffered from unbelievable horror from the effect of burns, radiation sickness, and other injuries, compounded by illness.
In both cities, most of the dead were innocent “civilians.”