Tokyo, Dec. 22 -- Japan's Hiroshima Prefecture on Monday urged the government in a written opinion to uphold the country's non-nuclear principles, after a security official recently suggested the country should possess nuclear weapons, local media reported.
The Hiroshima prefectural assembly, on the day, unanimously adopted the statement, citing local concerns about reviewing the long-standing Three Non-Nuclear Principles, which prohibit possessing, producing, or permitting the introduction of nuclear arms into Japanese territory, Kyodo News reported.
"It is our duty, as the only country to have suffered atomic bombings, to continue striving toward the realization of a world without nuclear weapons," the statement said.
The statement com...