TOKYO, Sept. 8 (Xinhua) -- The Japanese government is not planning to review its three non-nuclear principles, Foreign Minister Taro Kono said on Friday.
In response to some lawmakers holding the view that Japan should deploy U.S. nuclear weapons here as a deterrent against potential attacks, Kono told a press briefing on the matter that being under the U.S. nuclear umbrella was all the protection the nation needed.
"At this juncture, the deterrent power of the United States is working and the Japanese government has not reviewed the three non-nuclear principles so far and has no plan to discuss a review of them."
Kono's remarks came after former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba controversially intimated on a TV program on Wednesday that seeking the protection of U.S. nuclear weapons but not wanting them on Japanese soil was in some way contradictory.
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