Japan
Analysis
-
Civilian HEU Reduction and Elimination Resource Collection
March 25, 2013This collection examines civilian HEU reduction and elimination efforts. It discusses why the continued widespread use, internationally, of HEU in the civilian sector poses global security risks, provides an overview of progress to-date in reducing and eliminating the use of HEU in the civilian sector worldwide, and examines remaining challenges to achieving this goal. The collection also includes detailed analysis of progress in eight key countries.
Report | -
Civilian HEU: Japan
March 20, 2013The article is part of a collection examining civilian HEU reduction and elimination efforts. It details current Japanese HEU policies, progress reducing and eliminating the civil use of HEU in Japan, and remaining challenges.
Article | -
Japan Treaty Memberships
May 25, 2012This is part of the treaty memberships collection of PDFs.
Article -
Nuclear Security, Post-Fukushima: Expectations for the Seoul Summit
March 12, 2012 | Michelle Dover, Miles PomperThis CNS issue brief examines challenges the 2012 Seoul Nuclear Security Summit faces, in a post-Fukushima world, attempting to integrate nuclear safety issues into the summit agenda without watering down nuclear security objectives. It suggests several areas of complementarity where overlapping progress can be made that enhances rather than detracts from nuclear security efforts.
Article | -
NTI Nuclear Materials Security Index: Building a Framework for Assurance, Accountability and Action
The Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) Nuclear Materials Security Index is a first-of-its-kind public benchmarking project of nuclear materials security conditions on a country-by-country basis.
Report | -
Options for NATO Nuclear Sharing Arrangements
Nov. 17, 2011 | Dr. Karl-Heinz Kamp, Major General Robertus C.N. RemkesThis is an article in a new NTI report is designed to help develop an approach to reduce nuclear risks in Europe and contribute to NATO's Deterrence and Defense Posture Review.
Article | -
Japan's Defense Guidelines: New Conventional Strategy, Same Old Nuclear Dilemma
March 1, 2011 | Masako TokiIn this analysis, Masako Toki explores why Japan's new national security strategy fails to address the traditional tension between Tokyo's commitment to disarmament and its reliance on extended deterrence.
Article | -
Remarks to the InterAction Council, 28th Annual Plenary Meeting, Hiroshima, Japan
April 18, 2010 | Sam Nunn"The world has to build trust, cooperation, technical capability and political will over time to have a realistic prospect of ultimately ending nuclear weapons as a threat to the world," said NTI Co-Chairman Sam Nunn.
Speech | -
NTI President Charles B. Curtis Speaks at the US-Japan Workshop on Nuclear Energy
NTI's Charles Curtis and Corey Hinderstein welcome the announcement that the Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan will set up a mechanism for participating in the World Institute for Nuclear Security (WINS).
Speech | -
North Korea's Nuclear Test and its Aftermath: Coping with the Fallout
June 25, 2009 | CNS StaffCNS staff members discuss North Korea's second nuclear test in May 2009 and the reactions of major stakeholders in the international community.
Article | -
Securing the Nuclear Future
June 15, 2009 | Laura HolgateNTI Vice President Laura Holgate delivers a speech at the American Nuclear Society Annual Meeting in which she argues that nuclear energy and nuclear nonproliferation are mutually reinforcing and that the path toward a secure nuclear future must involve engaging all relevant voices and aligning the objectives of nuclear commerce and nonproliferation.
Speech | -
Japan's Evolving Security Policies: Along Came North Korea's Threats
June 4, 2009 | Masako TokiMasako Toki analyzes the way in which the North Korean nuclear missile threats have influenced the recent shift in Japanese security policy.
Article |
This material is produced independently for NTI by the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of and has not been independently verified by NTI or its directors, officers, employees, or agents. Copyright © 2011 by MIIS.
Get the Facts on Japan
- Possesses a reprocessing plant capable of separating eight tons of Pu per year
- State party to the BWC, but experimented on human subjects with biological agents during WWII
- Possesses technological capabilities which could be adapted for the production of long-range ballistic missiles
Japan News on GSN
-
Japanese Nukes a Possibility if China's Power Spikes, Analysts Warn
May 3, 2013
-
U.S. Airs Proliferation Fears on Japanese Plutonium Site
May 2, 2013
-
Japan Ships Antimissile Gear in Reaction to North Korean Threats
April 19, 2013
-
Japan Urges S. Korea to Sign Military Data Accord in Face of North Threat
April 17, 2013
-
South Korea to Activate Antimissile Control Center
April 10, 2013
