THE US empire's hold on Japan has been significantly weakened by shock revelations this week.
Reports The Australian: "Japanese governments lied to their people for more than 30 years about a 'tacit' secret agreement allowing nuclear-armed US vessels to use their ports, a special Foreign Ministry panel reported yesterday.
"The tacit agreement, an undisclosed adjunct to the 1960 revision of the US-Japan Security Treaty, allowed breaches of Japan's Three Non-Nuclear Principles until 1991 when Washington officially halted deployment of tactical nuclear weapons on warships.
"Successive conservative governments 'offered dishonest explanations, including lies from beginning to end', the panel convened by Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada reported yesterday. 'This attitude should not have been allowed under the principle of democracy,' Mr Okada said."
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