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Has Japan started its new nuclear fuel reprocessing plant last promised for this year? Plutonium by the ton.

According to some articles, Japan has enough plutonium to make 6,000 nuclear bombs. But that plutonium requires some finessing to do so. On hand, they can rapidly assemble 300 nukes, within a few days.

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And the time for Japan to do that is yesterday, not tomorrow.

The only country reasonably and regionally threatened by a possible nuclear Japan, is China. Not Russia, not the US, not India, not Pakistan, not the UK and certainly not Israel.

While such actions may drive a nuclear arms race is Asia or SE Asia is likely, imo, only regionally is Japan able and willing to stretch its "imperial" ambitions, and other than calls for Japan First, I have not seen a resurgence or calls for a return to Empire.

And Russia and China have nukes. And India and Pakistan have nukes.

I think that the lines of power are more clearly drawn in the nuclear age when things happen in 30 mins or less, and we all know the consequences of the use of nuclear weapons.

Nations of the world look after their own security first, whether or not they are still suckling off the US teat (well, everyone but Russia, China, North Korea and France), and then to any "alliances" and "friendships" and "special relationships" a distant second.

A weak, feckless, illegitimate, traitor and coward masquerading as anything other than president of the local PedoClown club, drives every nation, that in the past relied upon US security guarantees, to rightly question the motives and ambitions of the US.

For Japan and the region, China is the threat. Not Russia and not Muh Ukraine.