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).

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 Legal Adviser to the Japanese Delegation to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva.

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, Graduate School of Fisheries and Environmental Sciences, Nagasaki University.

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

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

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.

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.

Novelist. Born in Nagasaki Prefecture in 1958. Received the Akutagawa Prize in 2001 for “Seisui” [Holy Water]. “Bakushin” [Ground Zero, Nagasaki: Columbia University Press] won the Itô Sei Literary Prize and the Tanizaki Jun’ichirô Prize in 2007.

Director and Chief Editor, NAGASAKISHIMBUNSHA. Born in Goto City in 1957. He joined NAGASAKISHIMBUNSHA in 1981.

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.

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