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Japan A-bomb survivors decry NPT deadlock after talks collapse

Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said it was "extremely regrettable" that the meeting ended without a final ...
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Disappointment spreads among A-bomb survivors in Japan over NPT confab

TOKYO - Survivors of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and their mayors expressed disappointment ...
Opinion

Bearing witness from Hiroshima to Fukushima: One Japanese journalist’s 40-year anti-nuclear journey

Protesters hold a banner during a rally in Tokyo, Japan, on November 21, 2025, after Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi criticized the country's traditional policy against nuc ...

Takaichi’s stance on ‘3 non-nuclear principles’ angers survivors

Eighty years after the atomic bombings, Japan’s longstanding commitment to the "three non-nuclear principles" is facing ...

Japan won't join U.N. meeting on nuclear weapons ban, citing support for U.S. deterrence

Japan will not attend a U.N. conference on the treaty banning nuclear weapons, a top government official in Tokyo said Monday ...
Foreign Affairs

Why Japan and South Korea Won’t Go Nuclear

In recent years, speculation among analysts, experts, and scholars that America’s two key allies in the Indo-Pacific could finally pursue nuclear weapons has intensified. The eminent diplomat Henry ...
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Oppenheimer visits Japan, unapologetic about atomic bomb success

Oppenheimer was tasked in 1942 with leading the nuclear weapons development project named the 'Manhattan Project.' After the atomic bomb he developed was actually used in August 1945, he felt fear and ...

Meet Tsutomu Yamaguchi: Japan’s official survivour of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki attacks

Tsutomu Yamaguchi is known to be the sole individual recognised to have survived both atomic attacks in Japan during the Second World War period. His .