FAS Issue Brief: Japan's Role as Leader for Nuclear Nonproliferation

New FAS Issue Brief: Japan's Role as Leader for Nuclear Nonproliferation A country with few natural resources, first Japan began to develop nuclear power technologies in 1954. Nuclear energy assisted with Japanese economic development and reconstruction post World War II. However, with the fear of  lethal ash and radioactive fallout and the lingering effects from the 2011 accident at Fukushima-Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, there are many concerns related to Japanese nonproliferation, security and nuclear policy.  In a new FAS special report, Ms. Kazuko Goto, Research Fellow of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of the Government of Japan, writes of Japan’s advancement of nuclear technologies which simultaneously benefits international nonproliferation policies. In the report, "Japan's Role as Leader for Nuclear Nonproliferation," Ms. Goto explains Japan’s development of technological safeguards in cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and offers recommendations for Japanese peaceful nuclear technology usage and nonproliferation. The full report can be read here.