Japan is unlikely to develop nuclear weapons to counter the threat posed by North Korea's nuclear weapons capability, a Japanese security specialist said last week in Taipei.
Yuki Tatsumi, director of the Japan Program at the Stimson Center, a Washington think tank, said Japan will not go down that road for two main reasons.
The first is psychological. Japan is the only country to have suffered a nuclear attack, which Tatsumi said is "something that carries over from generations to generations."