The Sasakawa Peace Foundation established the Working Group on New Initiatives for Nuclear Energy and Nuclear Non-Proliferation in 2018 to discuss the role of Japan in the field of the civilian use of nuclear energy and global nuclear disarmament. The working group has published two policy recommendations, “International Management of Plutonium: Aiming for Reduction in Plutonium Stocks and Adoption of New International Norms” (May 2019,
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Keeping in mind the fact that 2020 marks the 75
th anniversary of the bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki as well as the 50
th anniversary of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)’s entry into force, the working group produced these policy recommendations to outline the contributions Japan can make toward global nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation (
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