Update: Japanese official's remarks about possessing nuclear weapons not isolated incident: FM spokesperson

BEIJING, Dec. 24 (Xinhua) -- Chinese foreign ministry on Wednesday continued to blast the widely-criticized remarks by a senior Japanese official that "Japan should have nuclear weapons," saying it was by no means an isolated incident.

Those remarks of the official -- supposedly someone close to Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi -- came on the heels of Takaichi's erroneous remarks on Taiwan, revealing the long-standi