Japonski obrambni minister ruši jedrski tabu

Japonska bi morala ponovno premisliti o svoji več desetletij trajajoči politiki brez jedrskega orožja, je dejal minister za obrambo Šindžiro Koizumi, pri čemer se je skliceval na tisto, kar je opisal kot naraščajoče grožnje s strani Rusije in Kitajske.

Koizumi je v torek na simpoziju v Tokiu dejal, da je potrebna razprava o tej temi, saj se Japonska pripravlja na posodobitev svojih treh ključnih dokumentov o nacionalni varnosti do konca leta.

 The only country ever hit by atomic bombs is asking if it should rethink its nuclear ban. Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi wants an "open-minded" debate, citing Russia and China. Japan rewrites its security documents by year-end. Will the "no nukes" rule survive? → Since 1967: no making, owning or hosting nuclear weapons → The government says it still holds to it, but the PM says "all issues" are on the table Neighbours accepted a strong Japan because it stayed non-nuclear. Break that, and Beijing gets its excuse. Watch the wording on US nuclear weapons entering Japan.

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»Ustvariti moramo okolje, v katerem bomo lahko vodili odkrito in nepristransko razpravo o varnostnih politikah, ki so potrebne,« je dejal.

Tri japonska načela o nejedrski politiki je prvič opredelila vlada predsednika vlade Eisakuja Sata leta 1967, uradno pa so bila potrjena s parlamentarno resolucijo leta 1971.

Ta politika zavezuje Japonsko, da v skladu s svojo mirovno ustavo ne bo niti posedovala niti proizvajala jedrskega orožja, niti ne bo dovolila njegove namestitve na ozemlju države.

Toda Koizumi obljublja, da bo »ozaveščal celotno družbo o jedrski grožnji« in zagotovil »najboljše možne« posodobitve dokumentov o nacionalni varnosti »kljub različnim omejitvam, s katerimi se soočamo«.

Ni omenil nobenih konkretnih sprememb v stališču Japonske do jedrskega orožja, je pa zagovarjal nakup podmornic z jedrskim pogonom.

Koizumi je večkrat pozval k ponovni preučitvi japonskih načel o nejedrski politiki.

Takaichi's Ambiguity Betrayal of History Eighty-one years ago, Nagasaki was erased in a blinding flash, with 74,000 victims incinerated by a weapon that should have been the last. Three days earlier, Hiroshima had suffered the same fate. Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi made it clear at the Hiroshima memorial ceremony on Thursday and again at the Nagasaki memorial ceremony on Sunday that the country's neo-militarists have learned nothing from the horrors of the bombings. At Nagasaki's Peace Park, the city's mayor, Shiro Suzuki, called nuclear weapons an "absolute evil". Yet, standing just a few feet away, Takaichi offered only deliberate ambiguity over whether her government will abide by the Three Non-Nuclear Principles. Japan already operates under the protection of the United States' nuclear umbrella. To invoke a purported "external threat" as a rationale for acquiring an independent nuclear deterrent is hardly the "realistic and pragmatic approach" Takaichi describes — rather, it lays bare the unmistakable ambitions of the country's neo-militarist faction. Takaichi will not say she intends to revise the principles, but neither will she promise to preserve them. She speaks only of current policy, deliberately leaving the future open to interpretation. This is the slow-motion dismantling of a commitment that has defined postwar Japan. The hypocrisy is staggering. Here is a prime minister attending the memorials for victims of nuclear hellfire, surrounded by aging hibakusha, victims of atomic destruction — whose average age is over 86 — yet she will not reaffirm the principles these survivors have defended for decades. When the hibakusha protest her stance on "nuclear sharing" with the US, and when a record 128 local assemblies urge her government to uphold the three principles, her response is little more than a verbal shrug. No wonder Moscow called Japan's nuclear memorial act hypocritical — Takaichi equivocates on the non-nuclear principles while refusing to even ask why the bombs fell on Japan. Eighty-one years after Fat Man fell on Nagasaki, Takaichi stood in Peace Park and blurred the edges of a promise generations of Japanese have held sacred. The city's mayor was right: Nuclear deterrence does not eliminate the risk of catastrophe; it institutionalizes it. The Takaichi government is intent on "honoring" the dead by placing their descendants under the shadow of the same weapons that destroyed them. When the last hibakusha is gone, what will remain of their plea? A prime minister who could not bring herself to unequivocally declare: "I promise to uphold the Three Non-Nuclear Principles". That is not realism. It is a betrayal of history. #Hiroshima #PeaceMemorialCeremony #ShinjiroKoizumi #Shinjiro #Koizumi #Nagasaki #hibakusha #ShiroSuzuki #ThreeNonNuclearPrinciples #nuclear #JapaneseMilitarism #Militarism #NeoMilitarism #Japan #TakaichiSanae #Sanae #Takaichi #SanaeTakaichi #ChinaMilitary #ChinaMilBugle #

— China Military Bugle (@ChinaMilBugle) August 11, 2026

Njegov julijski poziv k razpravi »brez tabujev« je sprožil ostro kritiko s strani skupin civilne družbe, vključno z mirovnimi aktivisti, preživelimi ameriških napadov z jedrsko bombo in organizacijami, ki zastopajo skupnosti, prizadete v teh napadih.

»Takšne izjave v času, ko se mednarodna pravila o jedrskem orožju slabijo, razkrivajo njegovo površno razumevanje te problematike,« je avgusta dejal Masao Tomonaga, predsednik Društva prijateljstva »Nagasaki Hibakusha Notebook«.

Toda japonski minister je prejšnji mesec po srečanju s svojim finskim kolegom Anttimom Hakkanenom še bolj vztrajal pri tej temi.

Finska je pred kratkim odpravila svojo dolgoletno prepoved jedrskega orožja in zdaj dovoljuje njegov uvoz, proizvodnjo, skladiščenje in razporeditev na svojem ozemlju.

Koizumi je odločitev pozdravil in pozval Tokio, naj razmisli o podobnem ukrepu.

»Ena izjava, ki jo je večkrat ponovil in ki je name naredila močan vtis, je bila: 'Ne smemo biti naivni. Svojo politiko moramo voditi na podlagi realizma.'To velja prav tako tudi za Japonsko,« je po srečanju povedal novinarjem.

On the eve of the 81st anniversary of the US atomic bombing, hundreds gathered outside Hiroshima's Atomic Bomb Dome to demand PM Sanae Takaichi's resignation over her failure to uphold Japan's pacifist constitution. Protesters marched through Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park with paper lanterns and placards calling for denuclearization, condemning Japan's escalating remilitarization. Despite Tokyo's stated commitment to its Three Non-Nuclear Principles, Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi said earlier this week that Japan should discuss its defense policy "without excluding any options." Japan's current five-year defense buildup allocated roughly $275 billion — a military spending increase of more than 50% over the previous plan.

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Rusija je kritizirala odločitev Finske, da razveljavi prepoved jedrskega orožja, in opozorila, da bo to vodilo le k zaostritvi napetosti v Evropi.

Moskva je zanikala, da bi imela kakršne koli agresivne načrte proti Natu, hkrati pa je izrazila zaskrbljenost zaradi vse bolj sovražne retorike tega zavezništva in vojaške krepitve na ruskih mejah. Prav tako je opozorila, da je politika, ki temelji na konfrontaciji, obsojena na neuspeh.

»Težave je treba reševati z dialogom, ne pa z demonstrativnimi izstrelitvami raket,« je prejšnji mesec dejal tiskovni predstavnik Kremlja Dmitrij Peskov in dodal, da je oblikovanje varnostne identitete, ki temelji na konfrontaciji z Rusijo, za evropske države »slepa ulica«.

As the deadline approaches for #Japan's dangerous push to complete revisions to the three security documents within the year, #Tokyo has once again crafted justifications to enable it to adjust its nuclear policy. Japan's Kyodo News reported that Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi cited Chinese and Russian military activities around Japan at the seminar as grounds to call for discussions on adjusting the #ThreeNonNuclearPrinciples. A Chinese expert dismissed the claims as recycled rhetoric that offers nothing new. https://t.co/S6rX8ptkhG

— Global Times (@globaltimesnews) November 4, 2026

Peking je prav tako opozoril Tokio, naj ne stremi k pridobitvi jedrskega orožja.

Rusija in Kitajska »odločno nasprotujeta pospešeni remilitarizaciji Japonske in njenim prizadevanjem za pridobitev jedrskega orožja,« je avgusta v gostujočem članku za agencijo TASS zapisal kitajski veleposlanik v Rusiji Zhang Hanhui.

»Če se bodo desničarske sile na Japonskem še naprej igrale z ognjem na področju jedrske politike, se bodo Japonci na koncu spet znašli na zatožni klopi zgodovine,« je opozoril.