A Historical Study on Politics, Diplomacy, and Social Movements in the Making of Japan's Nuclear Policy

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24730136
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: International relations
• Research Institution: Fukushima University
• Principal Investigator: KUROSAKI AKIRA 福島大学, 行政政策学類, 准教授 (00302068)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 国際政治史

Outline of Final Research Achievements

During the Cold War, Japan maintained non-nuclear weapon policy known as three non-nuclear principles and made efforts for facilitating nuclear disarmament while promoting peaceful uses of nuclear energy and depending on U.S. nuclear deterrent for its security. Going back to the 1950s and the early 1960s, this study investigated based on primary materials Japan’s politics and diplomacy over various nuclear issues, through which the aforementioned “non-nuclear” posture of Japan took shape, and found structural factors and patterns of interactions between concerned political actors that affected politics and diplomacy in the making of Japan’s “non-nuclear” policy.

Free Research Field

政治学・国際関係論