{"id":3991,"date":"2025-12-20T07:13:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T08:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/?p=3991"},"modified":"2025-12-26T13:48:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T13:48:50","slug":"russia-responds-to-japanese-debates-on-nuclear-u-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/20\/russia-responds-to-japanese-debates-on-nuclear-u-turn\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia responds to Japanese debates on nuclear U-turn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The country\u2019s militarization would degrade security in Northeast Asia, Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko has said<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The abandonment of Japan\u2019s long-standing non-nuclear stance would worsen the security situation in Northeast Asia, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko has warned.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Japanese media reported that Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, also president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, was considering initiating discussions with her allies on revising the country\u2019s three non-nuclear principles \u2013 long-standing pledges not to possess, produce, or permit the introduction of nuclear weapons. Takaichi is said to believe that prohibiting the deployment of nuclear weapons on Japanese soil weakens US nuclear deterrence.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with TASS on Saturday, Rudenko said Russia is aware of the debates on the nuclear issue in Japan, stressing that <em>\u201cOur position is unequivocally negative.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n        <span><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure>\n            <img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/69303deb20302728897f8e6a.jpg\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/628867-japan-china-taiwan-war\/\">Is Japan\u2019s Iron Lady pushing her country towards war with China?<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>\u201cWe believe that the militarization of Japan would only worsen the situation in Northeast Asia and&#8230; would provoke appropriate countermeasures by countries threatened by that militarization.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The debate intensified this week after an unnamed senior official from Takaichi\u2019s office sparked controversy by telling reporters, <em>\u201cWe should possess nuclear weapons,\u201d<\/em> saying Japan needs them due to the worsening security environment, while acknowledging that the move would be difficult politically.<\/p>\n<p>Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara later said Japan\u2019s nuclear policy has not changed, reiterating the government\u2019s commitment to the non-nuclear principles.<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s non-nuclear stance is closely tied to its post-war identity as the only country to have suffered a nuclear attack, after the US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Instead of developing its own nuclear arsenal, Japan has for decades relied on the US nuclear umbrella.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The country\u2019s militarization would degrade security in Northeast Asia, Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko has said The abandonment of Japan\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3991"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3991"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3995,"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3991\/revisions\/3995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}