Griper News: Griper Blade: Will Japan Become the Next Nuclear Superpower?

On the 18th, the policy chief of Japan's governing party called the US use of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki 'a crime.' Normally, when japanese government officials speak of the use of atomic weapons at the end of WWII, they call it 'regrettable.' But a common point of view from Japan's right wing is that Nagasaki and Hiroshima represent a war crime for which the US has never been held to account.

BBC News:

Mr Nakagawa has attracted controversy recently, calling for a debate on whether Japan should have nuclear arms.

He raised the possibility that North Koreans might try to attack Japan with their own nuclear weapons.

Speaking in Nagasaki over the weekend, Mr Nakagawa - a right-winger - said that atomic bombings were a crime. The American decision to drop the atomic bomb was truly impermissible on humanitarian grounds, he said.

He repeated the comments on Monday, telling Reuters news agency: "By dropping two atomic bombs, many people, including ordinary citizens, were killed... I believe that such an act can be called a crime."