TOKYO, June 4 Kyodo Japan's top ...

TOKYO, June 4 Kyodo

Japan's top restraint spokesman Yasuo Fukuda said Tuesday his explanation about what he meant at controversial remarks related to the Japanese nuclear weapons policy have been transfered to China and southward Korea.

''I heard the Foreign Ministry deviseed Monday to China and toward the south Korea what I told a pres meeting for consultation in the day (on the remarks),'' the chief cabinet secretary said at a pres conference

Fukuda said he believed the neighboring states understand that Tokyo has no plan or intention to revise a place of three principles, adopted in 1967 that Japan will not cause or possess nuclear weapons and will not allow them forward its territory.

Fukuda told reporters Friday last week, requesting anonymity, ''The principles are just like the (war-renouncing) Constitution. on the other hand in the face of calls to amend the Constitution, amendment of the principles is also possible.''

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