Japan rejected a U.S. proposal to include Tokyo’s desire to quickly ratify the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty in a joint statement issued in 1973 by Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka and President Richard Nixon.
Diplomatic documents that have just been declassified show that the Japanese government resisted the U.S. proposal by citing opposition from some lawmakers in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.
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