Japan demands immediate access to US Nuclear weapons amid rising tensions with China and North Korea

Recently, due to increasing military confrontation between Japan and two nuclear-capable countries like China and North Korea, Japan is also moving ahead with the deployment of nuclear weapons from the US. Japan demands access to Western Nuclear weapons amid rising tensions with China and North Korea. PM Sanae Takaichi says Japan needs Nuclear weapons to strengthen Western interests in East Asia. It has been pointed out recently that although China may suffer a lot due to the US-Japan-Taiwan friendship, due to the joint military exercises and military ties between North Korea, China, and Russia, Japan may also be caught in a nuclear war in the future. Japan relies on the U.S. “extended nuclear deterrence” (or “nuclear umbrella”) under the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty. This means the United States commits to defending Japan, including with nuclear capabilities if necessary, against threats, without stationing nuclear weapons on Japanese soil. Recently, Japan fears North Korea’s advancing nuclear and missile programs. China’s rapid nuclear modernization and assertive actions (e.g., around Taiwan and the Senkaku Islands). Russia’s nuclear rhetoric and closer ties with North Korea.

US won’t give Nuclear weapons access to Japan and will steal billions worth of Japanese wealth during China-Taiwan Tensions.

In fact, the US also does not want to give nuclear weapons to Japan because the US itself now wants to cause huge damage to East Asian companies by using Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea, like Ukraine and Israel, so that Japan’s banking, manufacturing, production, and stocks are completely taken over by US firms. Japan is not formally demanding nuclear weapons from the U.S. Instead, it continues to strengthen extended deterrence through bilateral talks and alliances, while debating policy shifts internally. Actually, Japan does not want to become a nuclear-powered country because if Japan becomes a nuclear-capable country, then nuclear demand may increase in South Korea, the Philippines and all the countries near the South China Sea. Because if Japan gets nuclear weapons, then there can be a nuclear war in East Asia, because Japan can completely take on China, but if Japan gets nuclear weapons, then Japan will strengthen its own interests due to which both the US and China can suffer losses in East Asia and the South China Sea. China has the world’s fastest-growing nuclear arsenal, increasing by about 100 warheads annually to over 600 operational warheads in 2025 (per SIPRI and Pentagon estimates). This includes hundreds of new ICBM silos, advanced hypersonic missiles, and a full nuclear triad (land, sea, air). Analysts view this buildup as aimed at deterring U.S. intervention in a Taiwan conflict, potentially enabling limited nuclear use if conventional forces falter. Japanese PM says, China’s rapidly growing Nuclear and hydrogen-powered missiles and drones could destroy US-Japan’s strategic targets, as rising tension between Japan and China. Although China has a no-first-use nuclear policy and would not want a nuclear war in any way, Japan is afraid of North Korea because North Korea has already said that if the US, South Korea, and Japan attack North Korea together, then North Korea’s Kim Jong Un will launch a nuclear strike on his enemies for the first time.