Summary This book offers a comprehensive assessment of the dynamics driving, and constraining, nuclear power development in Asia, Europe and North America, providing detailed comparative…
Country or Region: Japan
Abstract This paper analyzes the socio-cultural, political and economic conditions prevalent during the inception of nuclear power programs in Japan and South Korea in order…
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Abstract The establishment of internationally recognized nuclear-weapon-free zones (NWFZs) by relevant countries on the basis of voluntary agreement is one of the most important and…
Summary In this text, experts from seven countries – Japan, Russia, China, the US, South Korea, Taiwan and Malaysia – assess the energy security issues…
Abstract Though North Korea agreed to partial denuclearization in February 2007, achieving that goal is at best a long way off. A natural gas pipeline…
Abstract This essay enumerates several opportunities for cooperation on nuclear issues— including document exchanges, visits, and exchanges of technical information— that could ease tensions arising…
Abstract Russia’s gas reserves are the world’s largest, comprising 31 percent of known global reserves, in contrast with its oil po- tential, which ranks seventh…
Abstract Members of the Japanese government and the Japanese security elite welcomed the 2010 US Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) Report, praising its emphasis on the…
Abstract A Northeast Asian nuclear-weapons-free zone (NWFZ) or a Japan-South Korea NWFZ could help entice the DPRK to carry out its commitment in the September…
The prospect of the United States continuing to reduce the size of its nuclear arsenal to “very low numbers” has raised questions in Japan and…
Abstract This article evaluates the value of U.S.-Japan-Korea (UJK) trilateralism as an anchor of Asian regional architecture by examining the history of trilateral partnerships, alternative…
Abstract A new security environment in Northeast Asia is calling for fresh thinking and changes in terms of the security policies of the Republic of…
Summary Over the past decade, Northeast Asia has been dominated by quite significant strategic change, which is ongoing and brings with it many uncertainties. naval…
Abstract The Dokdo issue has constituted a popular area of academic enquiry in both Korea and Japan, but few studies have extended their research parameters…
Abstract This article examines the historical events relevant to the claims of sovereignty by Japan and Korea over Dokdo, the legal doctrines that have been…
