[SandRat]

BANZAI!!!!!!!!

[Jim Noble]

“For this reason, Yazhou Zhoukan said Japan has the ability to build its own nuclear bomb if it were to revise its postwar peace constitution”

And, they have that ability even if they DON’T revise their Constitution.

[Army Air Corps]

Pei-Ping.

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Japan needs to develop their own military and if it includes nuclear weapons, so be it.

[SkyDancer]

Can’t be secret now that we know that.

[gaijin]

It’s likely Japan has already done so.

[DJ MacWoW]

Driveby Donations Gladly Accepted

[fishtank]

I smell chicom disinformation.

[Jewbacca]

I would hope so.

I would also hope they share them with Taiwan.

[deputytess]

But they already have Godzilla?

[the_daug]

It appears to me China is pushing nations in their vicinity to the development of Nuclear arms by their moves into the South China Sea and Eastern Pacific.

[Wuli]

I see. This Hong Kong based person is trying to claim that Japan’s possession of nuclear weapons could be an issue, while China already has nuclear missiles, but to the Hong Kong person there is no need for concern about THAT.

Me thinks I smell mainland propaganda, not “Hong Kong” reporting.

[lightman]

Mitsubishi...maker of the Kamikaze aircraft engines.

Some things never change.

[Thud]

Japan will have nuclear weapons about 15 minutes after its Prime Minister orders that they be assembled. They could have at least a thousand in a year.

Making H-bombs (i.e., the fission-fusion-fission cycle) would take longer and is dependent on supplies of tritium, etc. Making pure fission ones is a matter of assembly for probably a few dozen. Japan has, right now, the stored plutonium for about a thousand of those.

[Candor7]

Dai Nihon has likely had the bimb for years, thanks to the Cold War with Russia.And now the Red Chinks and Norkies are finally getting it? Buahahahahahaha! The Chinese and the Norkies realize that various sectors of their coasts could be glowing in the dark for a few generations if they attack Japan. Wow. They woke up. Japanese Prime Minister Eisaku Satō said to President Lyndon Johnson when they met in January 1965, that if the Chinese Communists had nuclear weapons, the Japanese should also have them. Throughout Sato's administration Japan continued to discuss the nuclear option. It was suggested that tactical nuclear weapons, as opposed to larger strategic weapons, could be defined as defensive, and therefore be allowed by the Japanese Constitution. A White Paper commissioned by future Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone opined that it would be possible that possessing small-yield, purely defensive nuclear weapons would not violate the Constitution.

[JoeFromSidney]

Japan will eventually have nukes, one way or another. So will South Korea. So will Taiwan.

However, I'm dubious about those numbers for quantities of plutonium. I suspect most of that is reactor grade, not weapons grade. If it is weapons grade, then they set out, long ago, and at considerable extra expense, to start a nuclear weapons program.