Japanese populist calls for say over any use of US nuclear bombs

A Japanese political party leader and unabashed populist who admires former U.S. President Donald Trump has called for Japan to have a say in how U.S. nuclear weapons might be used in its defence.
Nobuyuki Baba is hoping to shift Japanese politics to the right by transforming his Japan Innovation Party into the main opposition to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s government in the next general election.
On some key defence issues, Baba supports Kishida’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) including a proposal to amend the pacifist constitution to give official recognition to the armed forces and build a stronger military equipped with longer-range missiles to deter China and North Korea.
But Baba also wants the U.S., which has a security treaty with Japan and deploys more than 50,000 troops at several bases, to agree to give Japan a say in how it deploys or could use its nuclear weapons.