Japan's Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Policy
Third Edition

(Contents: PDF format)

Message from the Minister for Foreign Affairs

Introduction

I. Text

Part I. Overview

Chapter 1. Japan's basic position on disarmament and non-proliferation
Chapter 2. Circumstances surrounding disarmament and non-proliferation and Efforts of Japan
Reference: Movements regarding disarmament and non-proliferation in and after the 1990s

Part II. Regional Non-Proliferation Issues and Japan's Efforts

Chapter 1. North Korea
Chapter 2. Iran and other Middle Eastern countries
Chapter 3. India and Pakistan

Part III. Nuclear Disarmament and Non-proliferation

Chapter 1. Overview (Japan's basic stance on nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation)
Chapter 2. The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)
- Section 1. Outcome of the 2005 NPT Review Conference and future issues
- Section 2. Developments prior to 2005
Chapter 3. Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT)
- Section 1. Overview of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT)
- Section2. Towards the early entry-into-force of the CTBT
- Section3. Japan's efforts to facilitate the entry-into-force of the CTBT
Chapter 4. The Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty (Cut-off Treaty)
- Section 1. Overview of the Cut-off Treaty and its significance
- Section 2. Background
- Section 3. Basic stance of Japan
- Section 4. Japan's efforts for the commencement of negotiations on the Cut-off Treaty
Chapter 5. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards system
- Section 1. Overview of the IAEA safeguards system
- Section 2. Details of safeguards agreements
- Section 3. Improving the effectiveness and efficiency of safeguards
- Section 4. Japan's efforts
Chapter 6. Strict control over equipment and technologies for enrichment and reprocessing
- Section 1. International discussions
- Section 2. Basic stance of Japan
Chapter 7. Nuclear security
- Section 1. Efforts led by the IAEA and the United Nations
- Section 2. Japan's efforts
Chapter 8. Assisting denuclearization of the former Soviet Union
- Section 1. Overview
- Section 2. G8 Global Partnership
- Section 3. Assistance of Japan for denuclearization of Russia ("Star of Hope" etc.)
- Section 4. Other assistance of Japan for denuclearization
Reference: Arms control and nuclear disarmament by nuclear-weapon states
- Section 1. Overview
- Section 2. Nuclear disarmament and arms control of the United States and Russia
- Section 3. Prevention of arms race in outer space
- Section 4. Other developments in nuclear-weapon states
Reference: Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones
- Section 1. Overview
- Section 2. Japan's stance
- Section 3. Nuclear-weapon-free zone treaties concluded to date
- Section 4. Planned and proposed nuclear-weapon-free zones
- Section 5. Demilitarization of the Antarctic, the seabed, outer space, and the moon

Part IV. Chemical and Biological Weapons

Chapter1. Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)
- Section 1. Overview
- Section 2. Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
- Section 3. Abandoned Chemical Weapons in China
- Section 4. Destruction of old chemical weapons of the former Japanese arm in Japan
Chapter 2. Biological Weapons Convention (BWC)

Part V. Conventional Arms

Chapter 1. Overview (Japan's basic stance on disarmament and non-proliferation of conventional arms)
Chapter 2. Small arms and light weapons (SALW)
- Section1. Background of the SALW issues and international efforts
- Section 2. Japan's efforts
- Section 3. Recent situation
Chapter 3. Anti-personnel Landmines
- Section 1. Present situation on Anti-personnel landmine issues
- Section 2. Effort of the international community
- Section 3. Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer if Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction (Ottawa Convention)
- Section 4. Japan's efforts
Chapter 4. Convention on Prohibition or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects (CCW)
- Section 1. Overview of the Convention
- Section 2. Recent situation
Chapter 5. UN Register of Conventional Arms
- Section 1. Background and overview
- Section 2. Japan's efforts
Chapter 6. Other issues surrounding conventional arms
- Section 1. International move toward strengthening control over transfer of weapons
- Section 2. Cluster munitions
- Section 3. Depleted uranium munitions

Part VI. Non-Proliferation Regimes

Chapter 1. Export control regimes
- Section 1. Overview and present status of export control regimes
- Section 2. Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) and Zangger Committee
- Section 3. Australia Group (AG)
- Section 4. Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR)
- Section 5. Wassenaar Arrangement (WA)
Chapter 2. Non-proliferation of missiles
- Section 1. Present status of issue of missile proliferation
- Section 2. Hague Code of Conduct
- Section 3. Japan's efforts
Chapter 3. Proliferation Security Initiatives (PSI)
- Section 1. Background of its establishment and overview
- Section 2. Past experiences
- Section 3. Japan's efforts
Chapter 4. Man-Portable Air Defense Systems (MANPADS)
- Section 1. Background and present situation
- Section 2. Efforts of international community and Japan

Part VII. International and Regional Efforts

Chapter 1. Efforts at the United Nations
- Section 1. Discussion at the United Nations
- Section 2. The United Nations General Assembly (First Committee)
- Section 3. The United Nations Security Council
- Section 4. The United Nations Secretary-General's Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters
- Section 5. The United Nations Conference on Disarmament Issues
Chapter 2. Efforts at the Conference on Disarmament (CD)
- Section 1. Overview
- Section 2. The stalemate at the Conference on Disarmament (CD) and efforts to break the deadlock
Chapter 3. Efforts at the G8
Chapter 4. Regional efforts
- Section 1. Regional frameworks
- Section 2. Asian Senior-level Talks on Non-Proliferation (ASTOP)