MR YOSHIDA’S VIEWS
“JAPAN NOT CAPABLE OF REARMING”
TOKYO, February 20. The Japanese Prime Minister (Mr Shigoru Yoshida) said to-day that Japan neither wanted to rearm nor was economically capable of rearming. He told the Foreign Affairs Committee that some foreign exponents of a Pacific Pact were advocating the inclusion of Japan in a military alliance as a means of holding Japan in check.
He said certain foreign quarters which, feared a resurgence of Japanese militarism were thinking of the Pacific Pact in terms of security, not only for. but also from Japan. Japan had constitutionally relinquished the right of belligerency, but had retained the right of self-defence.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26353, 22 February 1951, Page 7
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