Our research group also conducts interviews with key players to grasp the NPT related issues.
Oral History Project
We conducted a set of interviews with Mr. Kazuhara Takenori who was the head of the Disarmament Office of the United Nations during the ratification of the NPT in Japan.
- Iwama, Yoko et. al. "Kazuhara Takenori: Oral History." Transcript of an Oral History conducted in 2017-2018 by Iwama Yoko, Takeda Yu, Shiratori Junichiro. Images of Mr. Kazuhara's memo pads. The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime and the Redefinition of Security Policies Research Project of JSPS (17H00972). GRIPS Research Paper. Tokyo: 2019. (In Japanese)