Britain cast doubt on Japan's antinuclear weapons stance in 1980s: archive

The British government doubted Japan's claims that nuclear weapons were not allowed to be brought into the Asian country in the mid-1980s, according to declassified documents released at the National Archives in London.At the time Britain was seeking permission to allow one of its ships to visit Japan. This followed a decision to scrap a call by one of its aircraft carriers, Invincible, amid fears that it could have been carrying nuclear weapons.As the only country to have suffered atomic bombings, Japan has long upheld the three so-called non-nuclear principles. First advocated in 1967, th…READ FULL ARTICLE