TOKYO -- Japan does not seek the power to destroy an enemy nation, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told the parliament on Wednesday, stressing that a proposed capacity to attack missile bases would not go beyond the limits of the country's pacifist constitution.
"Destroying another nation, waging a full-scale war, and having the capability to do so -- these are not on the agenda at all," Kishida said in response to a question by Communist Party lawmaker Keiji Kokuta in the lower house budget committee.
