The nation of Japan has many powerful enemies in the world. Japan fought aggressively in the early 20th century and attacked many Asian countries with total disregard for human rights and civilian deaths. They deployed chemical and biological weapons on the Chinese populace and also fought against eastern Russia and North Korea. One of the main reasons for China’s current military spending and development today goes back to the Japanese massacre of Chinese civilians in the 20th century. Japan surrendered to the United States of America in 1945 and their military was completely dismantled. There are treaties against Japanese military development similar to the Treaty of Versailles signed against the nation of Germany after World War I.

Japan’s Basic Policy for National Defense stipulates the following policies:

1.     To avoid becoming a major military power that might pose a threat to the world.

2.     Refraining from the development of nuclear weapons, and to refuse to allow nuclear weapons inside Japanese territory.

3.     Ensuring civilian control of the military.

4.     Maintaining security arrangements with the United States

5.     Building up defensive capabilities within moderate limits.

6.     Absolute ban on arm exports.

Nuclear power plants are not just for producing electricity, they also have the ability to refine and produce weapons grade plutonium and uranium. Japan had a significant stockpile of weapons grade plutonium and wanted to develop a nuclear weapons program but stay within the treaty; similar to Germany between World War I and II researching, testing and developing rockets, missiles and aircraft through rocket and glider clubs. This meant keeping weapons grade plutonium on stockpile but keeping the actual nuclear devices used in nuclear weapons unassembled. It is very easy to build nuclear weapons, as demonstrated when two students wrote a document with great detail so it could be designed in any machine shop (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/jun/24/usa.science). The only hard part is getting the weapons grade uranium or plutonium through processing and refining which can be done by nuclear power plants.

On March 8^th 2011, the Governor of Tokyo urged Japan to develop nuclear weapons (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/japan-must-develop-nuclear-weapons-warns-tokyo-governor-2235186.html). The weeks, months and years proceeding this tragic event was one with many army, naval, air and even space violations and clashes into Japanese territory from the armed forces of China, Russia and North Korea; Japan’s main enemies and all of which are nuclear armed. Japan’s nuclear power plant that was struck by the March 11^th 2011 earthquake and tsunami was one of those nuclear power plant complexes which were refining weapons grade plutonium.

Earthquake and tsunami weapons have been studied, researched, developed and tested by the major militaries of the world since World War II. Make your own conclusions.

The conclusion I came to is the treaty was about to be violated and there is a vast effort to keep any new countries from acquiring and developing nuclear weapons especially one which could radically destabilize the Asia-Pacific region and potentially jeopardize the lives of millions if not billions in their construction and development.