It's impossible for Japan to possess nuclear weapons or even consider holding them. As our national policy, we stick to the three nonnuclear principles of not producing, possessing or allowing nuclear

Except the third principle was violated from the time it was announced, with Japanese connivance, and the papers that prove it (at least on the American side) have long since seen the light of day.

But the US military has nuclear weapons in Okinawa, don't they?

Please remind Abe that then-Prime Minister Ohira told the US basically, if you don't ask to bring in nuclear weapons, we can't deny you permission to bring them in. i.e. Don't Ask and we can ignore them.

Yeah, that's what he's saying this year.

Time for a history lesson, eh?

Moonraker:

Exactly, there were only ever two principles and everyone knows it. What is the point of Abe's saying obviously untrue things like that I wonder?