Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi this week hinted at a possible shift in the country’s decades-old non-nuclear principles, raising speculation that she might seek to revise a ban on the entry of such weapons into its territory.

Takaichi, on Monday in parliament, said she could not say whether those three principles, not to possess, produce, or introduce nuclear weapons into its territory, would be maintained in an upcoming revision of Japan’s security strategy.

“I cannot make a definitive statement or say that it will be written in such a manner,” she said, responding to an opposition lawmaker’s question. She added that, for now, the government still adheres to them as a policy guideline.

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