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Japan plans to expose secret U.S. pact

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Yukio Hatoyama (L), head of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), and Secretary General Katsuya Okada in Tokyo, Aug. 30, 2009. UPI/Keizo Mori 
Published: Nov. 24, 2009 at 8:42 PM

TOKYO, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- The details of a secret agreement with the United States allowing nuclear weapons in Japan will be released in January, Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada says.

Okada said the government's investigation of the pact is almost complete, The Washington Post reported.

"We'll be unburdening ourselves of the insistence of past governments that a secret agreement did not exist," Okada said in a speech Saturday.

After World War II, which ended after the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan legally banned nuclear weapons and their manufacture from its territory. But in the 1960s, the government signed a secret pact allowing U.S. military ships armed with nuclear weapons to enter Japanese ports.

At the time, and for most of the post-war era, Japan was governed by the Liberal Democratic Party, ousted this year by the Democratic Party of Japan, headed by Prime Minister Fukio Hatoyama.

Topics: Katsuya Okada
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