BEIJING -- China urges Japan to stop testing the bottom line of international justice with its nuclear ambitions, said a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson on Friday.

Spokesperson Guo Jiakun's remarks came after a senior Japanese official said that Japan should have nuclear weapons.

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The recent noises from the Japanese side about nuclear weapons reflect the growing ambition of right-wing conservative forces in Japan to revive militarism, break free from the international order, and accelerate the country's "remilitarization", Guo told a regular press briefing.