Japan's Security / Peace & Stability of the International Community
Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Technology
December 3, 2024
JAPAN'S EFFORTS ON DISARMAMENT AND NON-PROLIFERATION
As the only country to have suffered atomic bombings, Japan has been leading the international discussion on disarmament and non-proliferation. Japan has been promoting real change by calling on all nuclear weapon states to take measures toward nuclear disarmament while increasing transparency in military armaments.
What's New
- The Adoption of the Weapons of Mass Destruction in Outer Space Resolution, submitted by Japan, U.S., and Argentina, at the United Nations General Assembly (December 3, 2024)
- Adoption of the Draft Resolution on Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons Submitted by Japan to the First Committee of the UN General Assembly (December 3, 2024)
- The Adoption of the Draft Resolution on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons submitted by Japan in the Plenary Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly (December 3, 2024)
- Visit of IAEA officials and international experts for a review on the discharge of ALPS treated water from TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station into the Sea (December 2, 2024)
- Attendance of State Minister for Foreign Affairs Miyaji at the Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Science, Technology and Applications and the Technical Cooperation Programme (Outline) (November 27, 2024)
- 2024 IAEA Marine Monitoring (October 4, 2024)
- Eleventh Ministerial Meeting of the Friends of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) (September 25, 2024)
- High-Level Launch Meeting of the Friends of a Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty (FMCT) (September 23, 2024)
- The 68th General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (September 13, 2024)
- Video message from Prime Minister Kishida at the Opening Ceremony of the Japan Visit Programme (Study Tour to Hiroshima and Nagasaki) of the “Youth Leader Fund for a World without Nuclear Weapons” (August 26, 2024)
- 17th Japan-ROK Consultation on Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Issues (February 16, 2024)
- Courtesy Call on Special Advisor to the Prime Minister Ishihara by Executive Director of International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (January 23, 2024)