Japan's Security / Peace & Stability of the International Community
Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Technology
June 9, 2025
Foreign Minister IWAYA and Ms.Nakamitsu, Under Secretary General and High Representative For Disarmament Affairs of the United Nations(January, 2025)
Foreign Minister IWAYA and IAEA Director General Grossi(February, 2025)
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
- Parliamentary Vice-Minister ERI’s attendance at “Seminar on the 80th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombings and the Role of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Nuclear-Weapons- Free- Zone” (June 9, 2025)
- Courtesy Call on Parliamentary Vice-Minister Ms. ERI Arfiya by Dr. Robin GEISS, Director of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (May 20, 2025)
- The 12th Japan-Iran Consultation on Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Issues (May 19, 2025)
- Foreign Minister Iwaya’s participation in the side event on the International Group of Eminent Persons for a World without Nuclear Weapons (April 28, 2025)
- Foreign Minister Iwaya’s Statement at the General Debate of the Third Session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2026 NPT Review Conference (April 28, 2025)
- The Public Event of the International Group of Eminent Persons for a World Without Nuclear Weapons (April 1, 2025)
- The Sixth Meeting of the International Group of Eminent Persons for a World Without Nuclear Weapons (March 31, 2025)
- Courtesy Call on Prime Minister Ishiba by Participants of the sixth Meeting of the International Group of Eminent Persons for a World without Nuclear Weapons (March 31, 2025)
- Foreign Minister Iwaya's Attendance at the Opening Session of the sixth Meeting of the International Group of Eminent Persons for a World without Nuclear Weapons (March 30, 2025)
- Second Call for Application for the “Youth Leader Fund for a World Without Nuclear Weapons” is now open (March 5, 2025)
- Visit of H.E. Mr. Rafael Mariano Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to Japan (February 4, 2025)
- Japan-EU Dialogue on Disarmament and Non-Proliferation (January 16, 2025)
- Release of IAEA report regarding Marine Monitoring (January 6, 2025)
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