MORIMOTO Satoshi is a Professor in the Faculty of International Development at Takusyoku University. He has held several positions in the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including Director of the Consular and Migration Policy Division (1991-1992), Director of the Security Policy Division in the Bureau of Information Analysis, Research and Planning (1987-1989), and Deputy Director […]
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MURAYAMA Yuzo
MURAYAMA Yuzo is Associate Professor in the Department of Area Studies at the Osaka University of Foreign Studies. He received his BA in Economics from Doshisha University (1975) and his Masters and Doctorate degrees in Economics from the University of Washington (1982-1987). He has worked at the Nomura Research Institute in both the Tokyo and […]
KUROSAWA Mitsuru
KUROSAWA Mitsuru is Professor of International Law and International Relations at Osaka School of International Public Policy and Faculty of Law, Osaka University, Japan. He received his Bachelors, Law, Masters and Doctorate degrees from Osaka University. He also has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Virginia, School of Law. He is the author […]
IMAI Ryukichi
IMAI Ryukichi is currently Counselor for the Atomic Energy Commission and Senior Advisor for the Japan Atomic Industrial Forum. He is a distinguished scholar and a Board Member of the Institute for International Policy Studies. He is a Visiting Professor at Kyorin University and a Research Advisor at the Japan Institute for Energy Economics. He […]
Countermeasures to the Proposed US National Missile Defense System
Countermeasures to the Proposed US National Missile Defense System by Lisbeth Gronlund Senior Staff Scientist Union of Concerned Scientists President Clinton recently announced that he would not authorize deployment of the national missile defense (NMD) system under development by the United States. However, the issue of NMD will remain on the agenda for the […]
National Missile Defense and United States Domestic Politics
National Missile Defense and United States Domestic Politics by David L. Paldy As the 2000 presidential elections near, a vigorous debate continues within the United States about the feasibility and effectiveness of a national missile defense (NMD) system, and whether the United States should deploy such a system. The discussion often revolves around the […]
Secret Files Expose Tokyo’s Double Standard on Nuclear Policy
By YOSHITAKA SASAKI Asahi Shimbun August 25, 1999 (Re-posted with permission; also available in PDF-format) As many people may have long suspected, the Japanese government employed a double standard in espousing “three non-nuclear principles” under the “nuclear umbrella” offered by the United States. A U.S. aircraft carrier based in Yokosuka would carry nuclear weapons until […]
Japan Under the US Nuclear Umbrella
Hans Kristensen Introduction and Summary The Early Years The Battle over Okinawa The “Secret” Agreement Nuclear War Planning in Japan About the Author Introduction And Summary During the Cold War, rumors concerning U.S. deployments of nuclear weapons to Japan were both numerous and widely reported. Such rumors were consistently met with adamant […]
Morton H. Halperin
Biographical Information Return to the US-Japan Nuclear Dimension page. Morton H. Halperin is the Director of the Policy Planning Staff of the US State Department. Previously, he served as the Senior Vice President of the Twentieth Century Fund/Century Foundation, and a Senior Fellow of theCouncil on Foreign Relations. Dr. Halperin served in the federal […]
Morton H. Halperin: The Nuclear Dimension of the U.S.-Japan Alliance: Paper and commentaries
July 9, 1999 Morton H. Halperin The Nuclear Dimension of the U.S.-Japan Alliance — Paper and commentaries — Use links below for “html” and “pdf” versions. New July 20, 1999: “Japan Under the Nuclear Umbrella” Click here for more information Morton H. Halperin biographical information Paper (includes commentary) (PDF) Description of the paper, commentaries, and […]