Japan looks back at its own nuclear history

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Two prime ministers in the 1960s called for Japan to have nuclear arms, despite the activism of the world's only atomic-bombed nation to abolish the weapons, a newspaper said yesterday.
The Asahi Shimbun, citing unclassified US government documents, said then prime minister Eisaku Sato expressed support for nuclear weapons after neighboring China conducted its first nuclear test in October 1964.

Speaking in December that year with US ambassador Edwin Reischauer, Sato said that he agreed with British prime minister Harold Wilson that it was common sense to have nuclear weapons if other nations did, the report said.

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