Japan’s Disarmament Policy

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Directorate General, Arms Control and Scientific Affairs, Ministry of Foreign

2003

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Affairs

Contents

Introduction - Significance of Disarmament and its History

Part I. Overview: Current situation and future perspectives of disarmament and non-proliferation

Chapter 1. Situation concerning disarmament and non-proliferation after the Cold War

Section 1. Disarmament and non-proliferation regime.

Section 2. Circumstances surrounding nuclear weapons

Section 3. Circumstances surrounding Chemical and Biological Weapons.

Section 4. Circumstances surrounding Conventional Weapons

Section 5. Current Situation surrounding Non-proliferation.

Chapter 2. Japan’s basic stance and efforts on disarmament and non-proliferation.

Section 1. Basic stance

Section 2. Japan’s efforts regarding disarmament and non-proliferation of nuclear weapons.

Section 3. Efforts in the disarmament and non-proliferation of chemical and biological weapons.

Section 4. Efforts on disarmament and non-proliferation of conventional weapons

Section 5. Efforts to strengthen the non-proliferation regime.

Section 6. Bilateral cooperation in disarmament and non-proliferation fields.

Part II. Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation.

Chapter 1. The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)

Section 1. Overview of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)

Section 2. Progress in international nuclear non-proliferation regime

Section 3. The 2005 Review Process

Chapter 2. Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT)

Section 1. Overview of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT).

Section 2. Towards the early entry-into-force of the CTBT.

Section 3. Japan’s efforts to facilitate the entry into force of the CTBT.

Chapter 3. 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 diplomatic efforts for the commencement of negotiations on the Cut-off Treaty.

Chapter 4. Arms control and nuclear disarmament by nuclear-weapons States

Section 1. Overview

Section 2. Strategic Arms Reduction Talks between the US and Russia

Section 3. The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM Treaty).

Section 4. The Treaty on Strategic Offensive Reductions (the Moscow Treaty)

Section 5. Prevention of arms race in outer space.

Section 6. Movement of unilateral disarmament.

Chapter 5. 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

Chapter 6. Assisting denuclearization of the former Soviet Union

Section 1. Overview

Section 2. Assistance for Russia.

Section 3. Assistance for Ukraine.

Section 4. Assistance for Kazakhstan.

Section 5. Assistance for Belarus

Section 6. International Science and Technology Center (ISTC).

Part III. Efforts for disarmament and non-proliferation of chemical and biological weapons

Chapter 1. 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 chemical weapons of the former Japanese army and of the Aum

Shinrikyo religious cult in Japan.

Chapter 2. Biological Weapons Convention (BWC).

Section 1. Overview

Section 2. Efforts for strengthening the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC)

Part IV. Efforts towards conventional arms disarmament and non-proliferation.

Chapter 1. Overview

Chapter 2. Landmine issue.

Section 1. Present status of landmine issue.

Section 2. Efforts of the international community

Section 3. Efforts of Japan

Chapter 3. Small arms and light weapons

Section 1. Background

Section 2. Japan’s efforts and policy.

Chapter 4. UN Register of Conventional Arms.

Section 1. Background and the meaning.

Section 2. Overview

Section 3. Problems of the Register

Section 4. Japan’s efforts

Chapter 5. Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty

Section 1. Overview

Section 2. Agreement on Adaptation of CFE Treaty

Part V. Efforts for non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction

Chapter 1. Overview

Chapter 2. Nuclear Suppliers Group

Section 1. Overview

Section 2. Activities of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) and Japan’s efforts

Chapter 3. Australia Group (AG).

Section 1. Overview

Section 2. Coordination of Export Control in the Australia Group.

Section 3. Japan’s efforts and the AG’s future prospects

Chapter 4. Non-proliferation of ballistic missiles

Section 1. Overview

Section 2. Activities of the International Community.

Section 3. Efforts by Japan

Chapter 5. Wassenaar Arrangement (WA)

Section 1. Background of its establishment

Section 2. Outline

Section 3. Activities

Section 4. Recent Developments.

Section 5. Japan’s efforts

Part VI. United Nations General Assembly and Conference on Disarmament.

Chapter 1. Efforts on disarmament and non-proliferation at the United Nations

Section 1. Discussion at the United Nations.

Section 2. The First Committee of the General Assembly and the UN Disarmament Commission

Section 3. The United Nation’s Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters.

Section 4. The United Nations Conference on Disarmament Issues.

Section 5. The United Nations Experts’ Panel on Missiles.

Section 6. Disarmament and Education

Chapter 2. The Conference on Disarmament (CD)

Section 1. Overview

Section 2. The stalemate at the Conference on Disarmament (CD) and efforts to break the

deadlock.

Part VII. Regional Non-proliferation Issues

Part VIII. The Role of Civil Society.

Section 1. Overview

Section 2. Holding of Symposia and Workshops

Section 3. Dialogue and cooperation with NGOs.