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Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Oct. 18, 2006. Japanese opposition party leaders on Saturday criticized Foreign Minister Taro Aso for tolerating Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Policy Research Council Chairman Shoichi Nakagawa who recently repeated the call for a debate over the necessity of a nuclear buildup for Japan.
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TOKYO, Nov. 4 (Xinhua) -- Japanese opposition party
leaders on Saturday criticized Foreign Minister Taro Aso for tolerating Japan's
ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Policy Research Council Chairman Shoichi
Nakagawa who recently repeated the call for a debate over the necessity of a
nuclear buildup for Japan.
Kazuo Shii, Chief Commissioner of the Communist Party
of Japan, said in Tokyo that Aso's tolerance of the call for a nuke debate has
incurred criticism from inside and outside Japan, and if he does not take action
to appease the criticism, the only way for him is to resign.
Mizuho Fukushima, Secretary General of the Social
Democratic Party, told reporters in Sapporo that Aso's stand on the nuke issue
destroyed Japan's continued efforts on the nuclear disarmaments and the
elimination of nuclear weapons, and sent a wrong signal to the international
society. She warned that her party could unite with other opposition parties on
handing in a distrust case to the Diet if Aso refuses to resign.
Since the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
announced its nuclear test on Oct. 9., the LDP policy chief repeatedly proposed
that Japan should talk about whether it should go nuclear to defend itself, and
the hawkish foreign minister claimed that such a debate should be allowed.
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for nuke speech
TOKYO,
Nov. 3 (Xinhua) -- Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party Policy Research
Council Chairman Shoichi Nakagawa aroused criticism from party members since he
repeated the call for a debate over the necessity of a nuclear buildup for Japan
on Wednesday.
Hidenao Nakagawa, secretary general of the LDP, told
reporters on Thursday that the problem whether Japan should develop nuclear
power should neither be talked about in the government nor in the party, and he
called on Shoichi to adopt self-restraint over the issue.
Former Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki said
Japan's not going nuclear has multilateral and reasonable basis. He warned that
a nuclear debate could lead to the international society's suspicion that Japan
may use its nuclear energy technology on the development of nuclear
weapons. Full story>>
