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Originally Posted by termogard
SLBMs aren't the same as ICBMs deployed on mainland. SLBMs are part of heavy underwater carrier (submarine) which belongs to certain country of so-called Nuclear Club
When you place nuclear weapon on a territory of some foreign country, you automatically convert this territory into a target for possible nuclear counter-attack. Plain and simple. I don't think Japan would be happy to become a primary target for Russian/Chinese/North Korean ICBMs armed by nuclear and thermo-nuclear warheads just for the sake of American interests.
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Japan is already a strategic threat to the above-mentioned because of the large US military presence in the country. This presence is responsible for Taiwan still being an independent nation, and thwarts any North Korean attempts to strike South Korea.
Japan has no offensive Army, and only a limited self-defense force, which is the reason Japan allows (and pays for) the stationing of US military forces within the country. Because of this, any attack on Japan is no different than an attack against America itself, and, as America is a nuclear power, Japan, by extension, is also a nuclear power.