The United States is seeking to secure supplies of TNT in Japan for 155mm artillery shells, as Washington rushes weapons and ammunition to Ukraine for a planned counteroffensive against Russian forces.For pacifist Japan, any procurement could court controversy because export rules ban Japanese companies from selling lethal items overseas, such as the howitzer shells that Ukraine fires daily at Russian units occupying its southeastern regions.Nonetheless, the allies appear to have found a workaround to enable the TNT sale amid global shortages of munitions, two people familiar with the matter told the Reuters news agency.
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