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106: 25: 628: 1604: 640: 1616: 832:-sponsored studies have been carried out in the past—and are suspected by many to be ongoing—to assess the feasibility of developing a nuclear weapons program. In recent years public officials and nuclearization advocates have been unprecedentedly vocal in questioning the principles, but the public remains committed to them. 771:, returning the island to Japanese control. The U.S. military was thought to keep nuclear weapons on the island, though it did not confirm or deny such weapons, and Satō faced opposition to reacquisition unless the nuclear presence was removed. As a compromise, Satō appeased the United States by bringing Japan into the 824:
in 1974, in large part for his work toward Japan's entry into the NPT. In his Nobel Lecture (on the seventh anniversary of his original statement to the Diet), Satō reiterated and discussed the Three Non-Nuclear Principles and expressed hope and confidence that future governments would adopt them as
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In the years leading up to this agreement, Satō was forced to appease public concerns that his administration might favor a nuclear weapons program; to this end, he introduced the Three Non-Nuclear Principles in a December 11, 1967, address to the Diet. (Actually, the principles of nonproduction,
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that May.) Satō worried, though, that the principles might produce too great a restraint on Japan's defense. To lessen their restrictive effect on the military, in a speech the following February he placed the principles within the broader framework of his
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The fourth pillar left room for policy change in the future, calling for Japan to abide by the principles "under the circumstances where Japan's national security is guaranteed by the other three policies".
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The Diet passed a resolution formally adopting the principles in 1971, though they were not made law. Eisaku Satō was presented with the
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first term as prime minister, this opposition became a major obstacle to his campaign pledge to end the U.S. occupation of
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Every Prime Minister of Japan since Satō has publicly reaffirmed the Three Non-Nuclear Principles. However,
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since their inception in the late 1960s, and reflect general public sentiment and national policy since
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nonpossession, and nonintroduction had been stated by Defense Agency Director-general
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Campbell, Kurt M. and Sunohara, Tsuyoshi (2004). "Japan: Thinking the Unthinkable".
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Address by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi at the Hiroshima Memorial Service
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Parliamentary resolutions that have guided the Japanese no-nuclear policy
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The Nuclear Tipping Point: Why States Reconsider Their Nuclear Choices
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Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and China
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1955 System
Soviet–Japanese Joint
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Hatomander
U.S.-Japan Security Treaty
Anpo protests
Miike Struggle
Income Doubling Plan
Three Non-Nuclear Principles
Sanrizuka Struggle
1968–1969 Japanese university protests
Okinawa Reversion Agreement
Japan–China Joint Communiqué
Lockheed bribery scandals
Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and China
Fukuda Doctrine
Railway privatization
Plaza Accord
Recruit scandal
Japanese asset price bubble
Kono Statement
Murayama Statement
1993 general election

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