Overview
- The review is being considered as part of planned updates to the National Security Strategy and two other security documents.
- The prime minister intends to retain the 'not possess' and 'not produce' tenets while reassessing the prohibition on allowing nuclear weapons to be brought into Japan.
- Ruling bloc discussions are expected to begin next week with the Liberal Democratic Party and Japan Innovation Party, with a proposal to the government anticipated before a final decision by the prime minister.
- Multiple government officials disclosed the consideration on Nov. 14, and no formal policy change has been decided.
- Any shift could mark a postwar policy turn and draw domestic and international criticism, even as some in the LDP question the move’s practicality given a 2010 statement that the 'no introduction' stance was not absolute in emergencies.