Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition

He was a Deputy Director of the Editorial Board of the Asahi Shimbun. He served as a member of the Advisory Panel of Experts on Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation for Japan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs. He is Editor-in-Chief of Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament (J-PAND). He has a PhD in International Public Policy from Osaka University (2007).

Kawai is a researcher with expertise in International Humanitarian Law. After serving as Director of the Soka Gakkai Peace Committee until October 2019, he worked as Research Fellow at the Toda Peace Institute before assuming his current position in April 2023. Kawai participated in the UN Conference to negotiate the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in July 2017 as a member of civil society while serving in the secretariat for the Japan NGO Network for Nuclear Weapons Abolition. He holds a Master of Arts in Political Science from Aoyama Gakuin University and PhD from Graduate School of Global Humanities and Social Sciences, Nagasaki University.

Adjunct Fellows of the Japan Institute of International Affairs; Co-Founder of the World New Prosperity.

Born in 1951. Before joining RECNA, he was a Vice Chairman of Japan Atomic Energy Commission (JAEC) of the Cabinet office (2010-2014). He is also a Council Member of Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs (2007-09 and from 2014~). Dr. Suzuki has a PhD in nuclear engineering from Tokyo University (1988).

Former Secretary-General of “Peace Depot.”

Professor, School of Information and Data Sciences, Nagasaki University.

Professor, School of Global Humanities and Social Sciences, Nagasaki University.
He specializes in arms control, disarmament, and non-proliferation. Author of “Nuclear Transparency: Practices of US-USSR/Russia and NPT as well as their Potential Applicability to China” and co-author of “NPT: The Global Governance of Nuclear Weapons.” He has worked for many years in the field of arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation as a Special Advisor for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan (Embassy of Japan in the United States, Arms Control and Disarmament Division, Delegation of Japan to the Conference on Disarmament, Non-Proliferation, Science and Nuclear Energy Division, etc.). He holds a M.A. in International Policy Studies with a certificate on nonproliferation from Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, and Ph.D. in Laws from Hitotsubashi University.

Associate Professor, School of Global Humanities and Social Sciences, Nagasaki University.

Ph.D. in Applied Physics, at Tokyo University. Inaugural Director of RECNA (2012-15). Founder and Special Advisor of Peace Depot Inc., a non-profit organization for research and education for peace.

Former Director, the Japanese Red Cross Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Hospital.

An extensive career as a researcher at Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Graduate School of Biomedical Science, Nagasaki University.

Editorialist of Kyodo News, PhD in Policy Studies.

Director, Chief Editor and General Manager of News Division, NAGASAKISHIMBUNSHA. Born in Nagayo-cho, Nagasaki in 1965. He joined NAGASAKISHIMBUNSHA in 1998. He has covered a wide range of topics, including atomic bomb and peace reporting and the Kanemi oil disease case.

Born in 1957. Doctorate in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland. Currently Job Title: China Project Manager, Global Security Program, Union of Concerned Scientists. Current Focus: Nuclear Weapons Policy and Nuclear Disarmament in East Asia.

President, Nagasaki City Hospital Organization.

Professor Emeritus, Osaka University and Osaka Jogakuin University. Founding President of Japan Association of Disarmament Studies.