On June 20 the Japanese Diet included the phrase "contribution to state security" in the basic law on atomic energy called Japan's law on atomic energy, removing a legal hurdle lying in its way of nuclear weaponization.

It also revised the law defining the activities of the organization for the study and development of outer space for peaceful purposes, laying a legal groundwork for its space weaponization.

This is a clear manifestation of Japan's attempt to go nuclear and realize space weaponization.

What matters is that Japan craftily added some phrases to previous articles and did not post them on the website of the Diet till they passed through the House of Representatives without any discussion in a bid to escape protest of the public at home and abroad.

Herein lies the crafty nature peculiar to Japan.

This means Japan has crossed one more threshold in its efforts to round off its own nuclear and space weaponization completely free from the U.S. "nuclear umbrella."

As already known, Japan has secretly pushed forward nuclear weaponization from long ago. It has conducted in real earnest the research into nuclear weaponization since 1995 on the basis of the basic study of nuclear policy from 1967 to 1970.

At least 50 nuclear power plants in Japan churn out nuclear waste enough to produce a lot of plutonium every year.

Japan has a long-term goal to stockpile 400 tons of plutonium that are enough to produce 60 000 nukes.

Japan eyes the world's biggest plutonium producer. Its real aim is to round off its independent nuclear weaponization.

The same can be said of its moves for space weaponization.

Japan finally passed through the Diet as early as in May 2008 the "Basic Law on Space" which allows the use of space for military purposes.

On this basis Japan extended the principle for the peaceful use of space which had been confined to the non-military field to the military field. In the wake of this it set up the Headquarters for Space Development Strategy headed by the prime minister.

Under the pretext of "state security" Japan adopted it as a policy to use the domestic satellite network and the relevant facilities for building a missile shield and legalized satellite development and launch for military purposes. Japan has finally built its own missile shield.

It is clear as noonday that the final purpose of Japan's moves for turning it into a military giant and going nuclear is to stage a comeback to Asia and launch overseas expansion and that the DPRK is its primary target.

The Japanese reactionaries are loudly trumpeting about "nuclear and missile threat" from someone in a bid to justify their moves. This is no more than rhetoric to rattle domestic public mindset and befool the international community.

Japan's ambition for nuclear and space weaponization which outrivals big powers would spark off an arms race not only in the region but the rest of the world.

It is quite natural that the reckless moves of the Japanese ultra-right forces are arousing vigilance and rebuff of the international community.