I subscribe to Michael Hudson's logic for Japan: being an enemy of the US is a damgerous, being an ally is lethal. After WWII, Japan was promoted by the US as another forward military base + reindustrialized as an economically viable state. Once it startes to do too well, however, the US used its financial weapons to tank the Japanese economy in the 90s.
As a de facto vassal state with no real rivals, Japan has no need for nukes. Defensive nukes are for countries that are at risk due to bombing or invasion. Japan is only at risk from capitalism.
I subscribe to Michael Hudson's logic for Japan: being an enemy of the US is a damgerous, being an ally is lethal. After WWII, Japan was promoted by the US as another forward military base + reindustrialized as an economically viable state. Once it startes to do too well, however, the US used its financial weapons to tank the Japanese economy in the 90s.
As a de facto vassal state with no real rivals, Japan has no need for nukes. Defensive nukes are for countries that are at risk due to bombing or invasion. Japan is only at risk from capitalism.
Being a US ally is a slow suicide
Ah, that explains the panic about Japan taking over the world back in the 80s.