North Korean Nuclear Threat and Japanese Responses
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North Korean Nuclear Threat and Japanese Responses

On Friday 2 July from 6:30 pm-8:45 pm (KST), APLN co-hosted an international seminar on Assessing Northeast Asia Nuclear Domino: North Korean Nuclear Threat and Japanese Responses with the Sejong Institute, Pugwash Japan, the International Peace Research Institute, Meiji Gakuin University (PRIME), and the Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition, Nagasaki University (RECNA). The event is supported by the Open Society Foundations. 

Senior Japanese experts presented papers assessing Japan’s responses to nuclear threats in Northeast Asia, the threat assessment of China and DPRK, and views of the younger generation on nuclear weapons and the atomic bombings.

This seminar is the second of two events on the “nuclear domino” effect in Northeast Asia. The first seminar on Assessing Northeast Asia Nuclear Domino: North Korean Nuclear Threat and South Korean Responses was held on 14 May 2021 and was co-hosted by APLN, the Sejong Institute, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Pugwash Japan, The Research Institute of National Security Affairs of the Korea National Defense University (KNDU), The Korea Nuclear Policy Society (KNPS), and was supported by the Open Society Foundation.

 

Program Agenda

Moderator: Prof. Keiko Nakamura, Nagasaki University
18:30-18:40 Opening Remarks
  • Prof. Seigo Hirowatari, President of Pugwash Japan
  • Prof. Chung-in Moon, Chairman of the Sejong Institute
18:40-19:25      Paper Presentations                                                                                                               
  • “Japanese responses to nuclear threats in Northeast Asia: Possible Nuclear Weapon Option for Japan?”

Prof. Takao Takahara, Meiji Gakuin University and Prof. Tatsujiro Suzuki, Nagasaki University

  • “Young generations in Japan and Nuclear Weapons/Atomic Bombings”

Dr.Hideko Shibasaki, Emeritus Professor of Nagaoka University of Technology

  • “Threat Assessment of China and North Korea”

Prof. Nobumasa Akiyama, Hitotsubashi University

19:30-20:40 Panel Discussion                                                                                                                         
  • Dr. Peter Hayes, Director of Nautilus Institute
  • Mr. Akira Kawasaki, Peace Boat, A member of the International Steering Group, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)
  • Dr. Hiromichi Umebayashi, Peace Depot and Nagasaki University
  • Dr. Cheong Wook-sik, Director of Korea Peace Network
  • Dr. Masakatsu Ota, Kyodo Tsushin
  • Ms.Yumi Kanazaki, Chugoku Shimbun
20:40-20:45   Closing Remark                                                                                                                               
 

 

 

  • Prof. Tomohiro Inagaki, Hiroshima University, Chair of Pugwash Japan