Japan, U.S. at odds over nuclear disarmament policy

A clear policy difference emerged between Japan and the United States when they had bilateral consultations before a U.N. panel adopted a resolution this month calling for the total elimination of nuclear weapons, according to diplomatic sources.The United States had opposed including some sentences referring to the importance of Article 6 of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and agreements reached at the review conferences on the NPT in 1995, 2000 and 2010 in the Japanese-sponsored U.N. resolution, the sources who spoke on condition of anonymity recently told Kyodo News.The article, whi…READ FULL ARTICLE