Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has ruled out the option of a nuclear sharing arrangement with the United States as a deterrence strategy, local media reported on Monday, despite security concerns amid the Russia–Ukraine crisis. “It is unacceptable given our country’s stance of maintaining the three non-nuclear principles,” Kishida said in Parliament, Kyodo News reported. Kishida’s remarks came after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called for Japan to consider a nuclear sharing arrangement akin to the NATO’s nuclear deterrent policy, which allows the United States to deploy its nuclear weapons in Europe under its custody. “It is necessary to understand how the world’s security is maintained. We should not put a taboo on discussions about the reality we face,” Abe said in a television program on Sunday. Abe was commenting on the security situation in Japan amid Russia’s recent invasion of Ukraine. While he acknowledged that Japan “must uphold the …