Member of Nobel Peace Prize winning group raps Japan over nuclear weapons treaty

Japan is against nuclear weapons when they play the victim but when push comes to shove ie the US will protect them (including nuclear weapons), they are silent because it Benefits Japan. Victimhood also Benefits Japan. They want it all / both.

"The fact that Japan did not sign the treaty "is not only embarrassing and sad but also makes me very angry," Kido said."

Precisely. And yet, it still doesn't stop the J-government from starting every sentence related to Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and other things nuclear with, "As the only country to have suffered a nuclear attack..."

Sounds pretty stupid and obvious they are just milking it when they end the sentence with, "... we don't support a treaty on the ban of nuclear weapons."

Japan, of all the countries in the world, should have been FIRST to sign this treaty. But it seems to me, that the administration doesn't remember it's own history and only pays lip service to the threat of nuclear war!

Japan has been stockpiling Plutonium for decades. Unbeknownst to the world Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3 MOX Fuel Plutonium breeder Reactor was operating at full power when the world believed Unit 3 to be powered off. Japan embarrassing itself was acknowledged 24MAR14 by US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz to have sent over 300 kg's of fully enriched Plutonium to United States. Middle East countries dare to imagine one kg of enriched Plutonium within their border are invaded. Is there a double standard that ICAN can exploit?

The problem is Japan cant decide by themselfs, its just a shadow state of the US.

maybe its because Japan possibly processes nuclear weapons?

japan has a 47ton stockpile of plutonium, with no commercial use other than bombs. last year we exported 331kg to the US from Tokai NPP in Ibaraki. it had incidents in 1997, 1999 and 2001. luckily it is on a fault line and experiences tsunamis and is very close to tokyo.

A small country like Japan, near water, should not risk its environment with nuclear weapons and should also consider the dangers of nuclear power, which creates nuclear waste.  The storage of nuclear materials in Japan poses a danger to its environment.

Why on earth should Japan be "the FIRST" to sigh such a treaty?

Because as mentioned, it continually plays the "victim" card from Hiroshima and Nagasaki. If they mean what they are talking about with regards to a nuke free world.....they would have been first!

The mindset has not changed in Japan since the last they declared war on other nations. It is pure shortsightedness and insanity to think that anything would be different (over the mid to long term) if Japan was armed now. In fact, things would probably get worse.

The only people who think this way are the brainwashed citizens from China and South Korea. Hence, you get a comment believing that North Korea can be more trustworthy of having nukes. A military dictator that kills his siblings and literally tortures his own people for any kind of discontent with his government is much more reliable with nukes?

When did Japan ever threaten another country or countries with total destruction since post WW2?

I seriously wonder...

Every time Japan has militarized in the past, it has belligerently attacked other nearby nations and sometimes forcefully colonized them. This plus the no remorse stance has taken since is the main reasons why Japan has reason to fear its neighbors.

The mindset has not changed in Japan since the last they declared war on other nations. It is pure shortsightedness and insanity to think that anything would be different (over the mid to long term) if Japan was armed now. In fact, things would probably get worse.

TBH, I trust North Korea with nuclear weapons more than I would with Japan.

ICAN should rap IKAN to Japanese govt. over nuclear weapons treaty.

Japan has to leave a small window unlocked in case she decides to make her own nuclear weapons which she can do without any problems.

Japan should not be trapped in its past experience. With three neighbors possessing nukes, it should of course have an option to possess it as well, whether it eventually decides to have one is a different question.

When did Japan ever threaten another country or countries with total destruction since post WW2?

Odd comment. They lost the wars they started and have been muzzled by their constitution ever since. Kinda the whole crux of the debate, no?

Japan does not enjoy her sovereignty after WW2 at all so it is up to the decision of US not Japan. Why don't they put the blame on the US directly?

Why on earth should Japan be "the FIRST" to sigh such a treaty? I could understand it for treaties against belligerence or rape, but why this? Japan picked the wrong fight and ended up on the business end of an atomic weapon.

So they get a Nobel Prize and suddenly they feel like they have the need/right to act as some kind of authority? Pfft.