Proposals to the Japanese Government Concerning International Management of Plutonium

In September 2018, SPF launched the Working Group on New Initiatives for Nuclear Energy and Nuclear Non-Proliferation, which set out to consider a range of topics including Japan's lessons learned from the Fukushima nuclear accident, strategies to control and manage nuclear fuel on a global scale, ways for Japan to contribute to denuclearizing North Korea, and the new approaches to nuclear disarmament, nuclear non-proliferation, and the peaceful use of nuclear energy.

Proposals to the Japanese Government Concerning International Management of Plutonium

In September 2018, SPF launched the Working Group on New Initiatives for Nuclear Energy and Nuclear Non-Proliferation, which set out to consider a range of topics including Japan's lessons learned from the Fukushima nuclear accident, strategies to control and manage nuclear fuel on a global scale, ways for Japan to contribute to denuclearizing North Korea, and the new approaches to nuclear disarmament, nuclear non-proliferation, and the peaceful use of nuclear energy.

The End of Nuclear Forgetting: Revival of Nuclear Weapons

By Nobumasa Akiyama, Sugio Takahashi, Ken Jimbo, Yu Koizumi,Hirohumi Tosaki, Motohiro Tsuchiya, and Masahiro Kurita

Gender Equality in Japan, Hong Kong & Singapore

This Special Report is groundbreaking in that it provides the first significant evaluation of the gender equality performance of public companies in Japan, Hong Kong, and Singapore, the three advanced economies of Asia.

By Equileap

Japan Matters for America/America Matters for Japan (2019)

By East-West Center, The Sasakawa Peace Foundation

Report－Balance Sheet of US Allies and Implication for Japanese Alliance Policy

There is no doubt that the Japan-U.S. Alliance remains the cornerstone of Japanese security policy as well as being the most rational means for providing for Japan’s national defense. However, in the United States, criticism of unilateralism or asymmetry in the Japan-U.S. Alliance remains persistent. Thus, it is likely that the U.S. will demand its allies to share an ever greater portion of the defense burden in the future.