Japan's Nuclear Identity and Its Implications for Nuclear Abolition
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction: The Paradox of Japan's Nuclear Identity -- Chapter 2: Japan as a 'Nuclear-Bombed State': The Genocidal Nature of Nuclear Violence -- Introduction -- The Conceptualization of 'Nuclear Violence' -- The Genocidal Nature of Nuclear Violence in Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- Atomic Bomb Survivors (Hibakusha) in Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- The Hydrogen Bomb Test and the 'Daigo Fukuryu Maru' Incident -- Japan's 'Non-Nuclear Policy' and 'Peaceful Use of Atomic Energy' -- The 2011 Fukushima Nuclear Reactor Meltdown -- 'Potential Violence' in Military and Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy -- The Criminality and Genocidal Nature of Nuclear Violence -- Alternatives for the Nuclear-Bombed State in the Post-Fukushima World -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Japan as a 'Nuclear Disarmament State': Its Global Initiative for Nuclear Abolition -- Introduction -- The ICNND Report and Its Comprehensiveness -- In Comparison with the 1996 Canberra Commission Report, the 2010 NPT Review Conference, and Nuclear Disarmament Progress 2010-2019 -- Limitations: Adherence to the Nuclear Umbrella and Atomic Energy -- The NPDI: Japan's Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament Initiative -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Japan as a 'Nuclear-Threatened State': Facing the Nuclear Threat of North Korea -- Introduction -- The First Nuclear Crisis in the Korean Peninsula -- The 1994 Agreed Framework and the Establishment of the KEDO -- The Second Nuclear Crisis in the Korean Peninsula -- The Six-Party Talks and the North Korea's Nuclear Test -- Growing North Korean Nuclear Threat and the 'Strategic Patience Policy' -- Containing the North Korean Nuclear Threat by the 'Peace Through Strength'? -- Prospects for the Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.