Changing Security Environment in East Asia and Its Implications on Japan’s Nuclear Policy
Journal: Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament
Year: 2023

The basic framework of Japan's nuclear policy, consisting of four pillars, was established just before the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) was opened for signature in 1968.Since then, the security environment in modern Japan, surrounded by three nuclear-armed states (China, North Korea, and Russia) that are willing or not hesitant to change the status quo by force, has increasingly become more challenging.The new National Security Strategy of Japan made public in Decembe