Kyodo via Japan Today: Gov't denies secret U.S.-Japan nuclear pact
The government on Tuesday shrugged off the recent revelation of declassified U.S. documents proving that the United States and Japan reached a secret nuclear agreement in negotiations over the reversion of U.S.-occupied Okinawa to Japan in 1972, maintaining previous government denials. "The Japanese government has said there was no such secret agreement, and past prime ministers and foreign ministers have denied it," top government spokesman Nobutaka Machimura said at a regular press conference...more...