Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto said Thursday that Japan will freeze new yen loans to India to protest the two nuclear tests conducted Wednesday, which came despite protests from the international community over three tests conducted two days earlier.
The measure follows a decision made Wednesday by Tokyo to freeze economic aid in the form of grants to protest the first three nuclear tests.
Hashimoto said that when the government announced the aid freeze it was praying that no further tests would be conducted.