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PROHIBITION

Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan / ANALYSIS
Mar 22, 2022
Why hasn't Japan signed the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons?
Despite having signed up to other agreements on the issue, and having public backing for the idea, politics has gotten in the way of a step forward on the treaty.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 22, 2022
Japan under pressure to observe U.N. nuke ban treaty meeting
Japan relies on the U.S. nuclear umbrella for its security and is not one of the treaty's 86 signatory countries and regions.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 30, 2020
Mobilizing the world behind the nuclear weapons ban treaty
Setsuko Thurlow is an atomic bombing survivor who lives in Canada. She has been a highly visible public face of the hibakusha around the world, campaigning tirelessly for nuclear abolition and was included in the small delegation from the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017. When she showed up in the audience at a lecture I delivered in Toronto a couple of years ago, the atmosphere in the room turned electric and I felt the full emotional weight of history settle on my shoulders. On July 7, 2017, she was given the signal honor to deliver the closing remarks after the historic adoption of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons at the United Nations in New York. On that occasion, she memorably declared: “Nuclear weapons have always been immoral. Now they are also illegal.” Her declaration was three years premature, but we knew the significance of her pronouncement.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 30, 2020
If we can’t ban nukes, let’s stigmatize them
Since the end of the Cold War, most people have become much less afraid of nuclear war, when instead they should worry more.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Hiroshima
Oct 16, 2018
Hopes high that Pope Francis will send message from A-bombed cities to support nuclear weapons ban treaty
With Pope Francis expressing his intention to visit Japan next year, hopes are high among Hiroshima and Nagasaki residents and A-bomb survivors' groups that he may come to their cities.
JAPAN
Jan 22, 2018
Support for U.N. nuke ban grows in Japan as assemblies pressure Abe to join
More than 100 assemblies throughout the nation are pressuring the central government to join the U.N. nuclear weapons ban, according to a tally compiled Sunday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / FOCUS
Aug 9, 2017
Japan's reluctance to adopt nuclear ban treaty angers hibakusha as Nagasaki marks A-bomb anniversary
As Hiroshima and Nagasaki marked the 72nd anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings, aging survivors deplored what they called the hypocrisy by the Japanese government following its decision to stay out of a treaty banning nuclear arms.
JAPAN
Nov 19, 2013
Japan ready to send GSDF trio as arms inspectors in Syria
The government said Tuesday it is prepared to supply three Ground Self-Defense Force members to an international chemical weapons watchdog, should they be needed as inspectors in the mission to eliminate a stockpile of such arms from Syria.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 27, 2013
Chemical weapons watchdog has tighter leash
The Nobel Committee's decision to honor the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons with this year's Peace Prize should compel world leaders to increase their support for it.

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