4) English articles

The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) and Northeast Asia, August 2022, Peace and Security in Northeast Asia: The New Normal

Fukushima 10 Years On – An Overview, March 7, 2021

Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan (FCCJ) Press Conference: Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, January 21, 2021

The World is Our Classroom: Peace Boat’s Global University, August 21, 2020

Hear the Voices of Survivors: Hiroshima and Nagasaki 75 years on With Setsuko Thurlow, July 7, 2020

Hibakusha Appeal: Over 10 million signatures submitted to the UN By Kimiaki Kawai and Akira Kawasaki, Reaching Critical Will First Committee Monitor, Vol. 17 No.2, October 14, 2019

The Nuclear Ban Treaty – the Path Forward for North Korea, South Korea, Japan and the Region

“Perspectives on Peace and Security in a Changing Northeast Asia – Voices from Civil Society and the Ulaanbaatar Process -“,  August 22, 2019

Panel Discussion with International Disarmament Experts “Disarmament for Humanity: Prospects for Nuclear Disarmament“, Hiroshima, co-hosted by UNITAR Hiroshima Office, United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), and United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA), August 6, 2019

The Trump-Kim Reality TV Show Is Over—The World Needs to Get Serious About Denuclearization

Newsweek Opinion, March 1, 2019

Remarks at Civil Society Meeting with the members of Group of Eminent Persons for Substantive Advancement of Nuclear Disarmament, Nagasaki, November 15, 2018

Lecture at Hanyang University organized by Sunfull Foundation, Seoul, October 9, 2018

Opinion: Be a player to abolish nuclear weapons By Beatrice Fihn and Akira Kawasaki, Kyodo News, June 9, 2018

Interview with Akira Kawasaki, Member of Nobel Peace Laureate—ICAN – NHK World, December 7, 2017

Presentation at 27th United Nations Conference on Disarmament Issues in Hiroshima, November 30, 2017

The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and Northeast Asia

Reflections on Peace and Security in Northeast Asia -Perspectives from the Ulaanbaatar Process, August 2017

Stockpile destruction, verification, and safeguard

Intervention by Peace Boat on Cluster 3, the UN conference to negotiate a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, June 19, 2017

Defusing the military tensions in Northeast Asia – Japan’s pacifism in quake

Presentation at Rikkyo and Hosei universities, May 2017

The end of nuclear dependence? Six years since Fukushima 

Public lecture at Asia Institute, The University of Melbourne, March 9, 2017

The Mongolian Observer, November 30, 2016.

Presentation at the International Forum of Mayors for Peace, Mexico City

Working Table 2: “Local governments challenging in the face of new global threats” (September 20, 2016)

Fifteen Points of Concern on Japan’s New National Security Laws

Peace Studies Association of Japan, 2015-2016 (with Akira Kawasaki contributing to Points 24 and 37)

Intervention on the humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons

Intervention at the Open-Ended Working Group on Taking Forward Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament Negotiations, May 4, 2016

Five Years On – Lessons from Fukushima (YouTube video)

Remarks at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan (FCCJ) for the fifth anniversary of Fukushima nuclear disaster with Kenichi Hasegawa and Ruiko Muto, Hidanren March 1, 2016

Effective Measures to Prohibit and Eliminate Nuclear Weapons

Paper submitted to the 61st Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs in Nagasaki, Working group 2, “Concrete Steps Toward a Nuclear Weapon Free World”, November 1-5, 2015

In the lifetimes of the survivors; As Fukushima proved, nuclear dangers persist; A long way to Tokyo

Three essays on “Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Lessons Learned?”, Development and Disarmament Roundtable of Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, August-September 2015

Promote disarmament education globally, prepare next steps to ban nuclear weapons

Presentation at the 25th United Nations Conference on Disarmament Issues in Hiroshima, August 27, 2015

The Right to Collective Self-Defense, Arms Export, and ODA – The Three Pillars of Japan’s Integration to the US Military

English transation of the article published on Pressian, South Korea, on July 16, 2015

Global and regional approaches to banning nuclear weapons

Presentation at 2015 NPT Review Conference side event “Northeast Asia Nuclear Weapon Free Zone Contributes towards Global Nuclear Zero – Pursuing a shift of security policy on nuclear weapons” April 30, 2015 (Reprinted in The Mongolian Observer, August 5, 2015)

70 Years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki – Time to Ban Nuclear Weapons

Reaching Critical Will, NPT News in Review, April 27, 2015

Austrian Pledge Promotes the Way Towards Banning Nuclear Weapons

Hiroshima Peace Institute, HIROSHIMA RESEARCH NEWS, Vol.17, No.2, March 28, 2015

Reclaiming Pacifism in East Asia

Kawasaki Akira and Céline Nahory, Korea National Strategy Institute, December 15, 2014

(Korean version here)

Japan’s Article 9 and its global impact

Presentation onboard Peace Boat’s 84th Global Voyage for Peace

Japan’s Decision on Collective Self-Defense in Context

Kawasaki Akira and Céline Nahory, The Diplomat, October 3, 2014

Abe Cabinet Reshuffled: Many right-wing faces, but cautious start

Commentary for Studies Group on Right to Collective Self-Defense, September 4, 2014

Interview on Japan’s nuclear power policy

“Perspectives from the region”, East Asia Monitor Volume 1 Issue 2, March-April 2014, Institute of Defense Studies and Analyses

Quakes in Japan’s pacifism

Opinion piece on Al Jazeera, co-authored with Celine Nahory, May 30, 2014.

New stakeholders and new approaches as humanitarian voices grow stronger

Presentation at International Conference on “A Nuclear Weapon-Free World: From Conception to Reality”,
New Delhi, co-organized by Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) and Indian Pugwash Society, April 2-3, 2014.