PROFILE
Nobuyasu ABE is Vice-Chairman, Japan Atomic Energy Commission (April 2014- ). Former United Nations
Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs (2003-06) and Director-General for Arms Control and Science Affairs(1997-99) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan. Director of the Center for the Promotion of Disarmament and
Non-Proliferation at the Japan Institute of International Affairs (2008-14). Ambassador of Japan to the IAEA and otherinternational organizations in Vienna (1999-2001), Saudi Arabia (2001-03) and Switzerland (2006-08). Member, Advisory Board
to the International Commission on Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament (ICNND; 2008-10), Board of the World Institutefor Nuclear Security (WINS; 2012- ) and Council of the United Nations University (UNU; 2010- ), Asia-Pacific Leadership
Network for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (APLN; 2011- ). Studied at Tokyo University (1964-67) and at Amherst
College (1967-69, BA), and at Harvard (Weatherhead) Center for International Affairs (WCFIA; 1986-87). Taught as a visiting
scholar at Sophia University, Tokyo University, Doshisha University, Akita International University and the International Christian
University. Member, International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS; 1984- ), Japan Association of Disarmament Studies(JADS; 2008- ).
Nobumasa AKIYAMA is Professor at the Graduate School of Law and the Graduate School of International and Public
Policy at Hitotsubashi University, and an Adjunct Research Fellow at Japan Institute of International Affairs. His otherprofessional appointments include memberships in various governmental consultative groups and study groups at Ministries ofForeign Affairs and Defense, the Japan Atomic Energy Commission, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission of Japan, andadvisor to the Japanese delegation to the NPT Review Conferences. Professor Akiyama has published extensively andpresented papers at various conferences on non-proliferation, Japan’s national security and nuclear energy. He also worked onreview of the Fukushima nuclear accident as a leader of the working group for the Independent Commission on the Investigationof the Fukushima Nuclear Accident, initiated by a private think-tank, Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation. Recent publication
includes AKIYAMA, Nobumasa, and Kenta HORIO, “Can Japan Remain Committed to Nonproliferation?” The Washington
Quarterly, Vol.36, No.2, 2013, pp.151-165, AKIYAMA、Nobumasa, “The Compliance Structure of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Regime and Japan’s Non-Proliferation Policy Assets,” Hitotsubashi Journal of Law and Politics, VOl.41, 2013, pp.11-23 as wellas numerous Japanese publications including 「核不拡散をめぐる国際政治」（有信堂、2012 年）.

Jayantha DHANAPALA is a former United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs (1998-2003) anda former Ambassador of Sri Lanka to the USA (1995-7) and to the UN Office in Geneva (1984-87).He is currently the 11th
President of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs; Deputy Chairman of theGoverning Board of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and on several other advisory boards ofinternational bodies. As a Sri Lankan diplomat Dhanapala served in London, Beijing, Washington D.C., New Delhi and Geneva
and represented Sri Lanka at several international conferences chairing many of them including the historic NPT Review andExtension Conference of 1995. He was Director of the UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) from1987-92.Dhanapala has received many international awards and honorary doctorates, has published five books and several
articles in international journals and lectured widely. He speaks Sinhala, English, Chinese and French. He is married and has adaughter and a son.
Jargalsaikhan ENKHSAIKHAN is Ambassador-at-Large of Mongolia. He represented his country at the United
Nations in New York. Though professional diplomat, he served as the legal and national security advisor to the first
democratically elected President of Mongolia and, as such, in 1994 organized the drafting, consideration and adoption by theState Great Hural (parliament) of the country’s first national security and foreign policy concepts as well as the basis of its
military policy. He has wide experience in nuclear issues. As the national coordinator for Mongolia’s nuclear-weapon-free status
he represented Mongolia’s interests at the United Nations and other international fora. Dr. Enkhsaikhan is a co-founder andChairman of Blue Banner, Mongolian NGO that is dedicated to promoting non-proliferation and nuclear disarmament in the
Asia-Pacific region. He received his doctor’s degree in international law in 1979 from the Moscow Institute for International
Relations.
Morton H. HALPERIN is a Senior Advisor to the Open Society Foundations and the Open Society Policy Center. Dr.
Halperin is on the Board of the Millennium Challenge Corporation. He served in the Clinton, Nixon and Johnson administrations,most recently as Director of the Policy Planning Staff at the Department of State (1998-2001). Dr. Halperin taught at Harvard(1960-66) and, as a visitor at other universities including Columbia, George Washington, and Yale. He has been affiliated with anumber of other think tanks including the Center for American Progress, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace, the Century Foundation and the Brookings Institution. He is the author of numerous books
and articles including Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign Policy, China and the Bomb, and Nuclear Fallacy.
Peter HAYES is an Executive Director, Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability. He is also a Professor ofInternational Relations, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Australia and Director, in Berkeley, California. He
works at the nexus of security, environment and energy policy problems. Best known for innovative cooperative engagement
strategies in North Korea, he has developed techniques at Nautilus Institute for seeking near-term solutions to global security
and sustainability problems and applied them in East Asia, Australia, and South Asia. Peter has worked for many internationalorganizations including UN Development Programme, Asian Development Bank, and Global Environment Facility. He wasfounding director of the Environment Liaison Centre in Kenya in 1975. He has traveled, lived, and worked in Asia, North
America, Europe and Africa. He has visited North Korea seven times. He was born in Melbourne Australia; today he is a dual
national of Australia and the United States. He is married with two children.
Satoshi HIROSE is a Vice Director, Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition, Nagasaki University (RECNA) Prof.

Hirose is co-editor of ‚Disarmament Review‛, an annual issued by the Japan Association of Disarmament Studies. He used toserve for the United Nations Development Programme as a programme officer and for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan asa legal adviser to the Japanese Delegation to the Conference on Disarmament. He also participated to the Review andExtension Conference of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty held in New York in 1995 as a member of Japanese Delegation.
He has a broad background in disarmament issues as well as in international cooperation and development assistance.

Ihk-pyo HONG is a member of the 19th National Assembly, Republic of Korea (May 2012-present). His party affiliation is
the New Politics Alliance for Democracy. He serves as Member of Trade, Industry & Energy Committee, National Assembly (NA)(July 2014-present), Member of Gender Equality & Family Committee, NA (July 2014-present), Member of Foreign Affairs, Trade& Unification Committee, NA (June 2012-June 2014), Adjunct Professor of University of North Korean Studies (August
2008-August 2013), Policy Advisor of Ministry of Unification (February 2007-January 2008), and Researcher of Korea Institutefor International Economic Policy (KIEP) (1996-March 2011). He received his B.A. in Political Science and Diplomacy from
Hanyang University, Seoul in 1989 and Ph.D. in Political Science from Graduate School of Hanyang University, Seoul in 2005.

Byung-dug JUN is a Professor at the Department of Education and a part time staff at the Research Center for Nuclear
Weapons Abolition (RECNA), Nagasaki University. Among his previous positions were a full time Lecturer at the Department ofEngineering (1994-1999) after received his Dr. of Eng (Remote Sensing) from the Nagasaki University; Coordinator of Remote
Sensing Project at the PECK Co. Ltd. (1999-2000); Associate Professor, Department of Education, Nagasaki University(2001-2008); Session Chair's Advisor of GISUP, International Conference (1999-2013). Prof. Jun has published more than 250
articles (in English and Japanese) covering the fields of engineering, environmental studies and peace education. His recent
co-authored books include Environment Matters: The Yellow River, Water and Life (New Jersey and London: World Scientific
Publishing Co. Ltd., 2010), and another books include Peace Matters: How to inherit the memories of the war (Tokyo:
Fuyoshobo Press, 2012). He is now very interested in peace education and related issues.
Shigeru KATAMINE is a President Nagasaki University (2008~). He got Bachelor’s Degree in Medicine at Nagasaki
University School of Medicine (1976), and Doctor of Medicine Degree at Tohoku University Graduate School, Division of
Medicine (1982). He was International Research Fellow of the National Cancer Institute (1985), Associate Professor of theNagasaki University School of Medicine (1991) and Professor of the Nagasaki University School of Medicine (1998). He is a
virologist and one of the members to have made effort to found the Graduate School of International Health Development,
School of Global Humanities and Social Sciences, and Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition (RECNA), Nagasaki
University.

Kab-woo KOO is a professor of the University of North Korean Studies where he serves as academic dean. He held
visiting research fellow at Rikkyo and Toyama Universities. His publications include "The System of Division on the Korean
Peninsula and Building a "Peace State"(2006), Critical Peace Studies and Korean Peninsula(2007), A Critique of International
Relations(2008), "A Theory of Green-Peace State and Peace Regime on the Korean Peninsula"(2010), "Towards a Working
Peace System on the Korean Peninsula"(2011), "Civil Society and Unification Movements in South Korea"(2011), "North
Korea's Foreign Policy Towards Northeast Asia"(2011), "Nuclear Security Summit and Nuclear-Free World"(2012), "Regional
Cooperation in East Asia and the Korean Peninsula"(2012), "Reproduction of Post-Colonial Divided States in Island of Irelandand the Korean peninsula"(2012), “A Prototype of Nuclear Discourse in North Korea, 1947-1964”(2014), and “North Korea’s
Foreign Policy and Peace in Northeast Asia”(in Japanese 2014).
Hideya KURATA is a Professor, National Defense Academy, Ministry of Defense of Japan. He was born in August 1961.
After receiving B.A. and MA from Keio University, he finished the doctoral program at the same university. He was also a Fellow
at Graduate School of Social Science of Yonsei University in ROK from 1986 to 1987. He had served a variety posts, including
Research Fellow at the Japan Institute of International Affairs, Associate Professor in International Studies, Tokoha-Gakuen Fuji
Junior College, Associate Professor and Professor at Kyorin University, and Lecturer at University of Tokyo. He majors inInternational Security, Nuclear Non-proliferation, and Korean Politics. His recent publications include, Foreign Policies ofExpanding China (co-authored, Keisho-shobo, 2010, in Japanese), Politics and Laws of Nuclear Disarmament andNon-proliferation (co-authored, Shinzansha, 2008, in Japanese) and “A Conceptual Analysis of the Six-Party Talks: Building
Peace through Security Assurances,” Asian Security, Vol. 3, No.1 (2007, in English), etc.
Mitsuru KUROSAWA is a professor of Osaka Jogakuin University. He got B.A., M.A. and Ph.D in Law, Osaka University.
He is a Former Professor, Faculty of Law and Osaka School of International Public Policy, Osaka University. Currently
Professor, Osaka Jogakuin University. Visiting Scholar at University of Virginia (1980-1982) and Monterey Institute ofInternational Studies (2003-2004). Former President of Japan Association of Disarmament Studies (2009-2013), Advisor to
Japanese Delegation to the NPT Review Conference in 1995, 2000, 2005 and 2010. Recent books: Nuclear Disarmament andWorld Peace, (in Japanese, 2011), Introduction to Nuclear Disarmament (in Japanese, 2011), Recent Papers in English,
Reducing the Role of Nuclear Weapons, ‛Osaka University Law Review, No.59, 2012, New Trend and Future Direction of
Nuclear Disarmament, ‛Osaka University Law Review, No.58, 2011.
Che-ik LEE is a member of the 19th National Assembly, Republic of Korea (May 2012-present). His party affiliation is
Saenuri Party (ruling party). He serves as a Member of the Special Committee on Budget and Accounts (July 2014-Present),
Chairperson of the Saenuri Party Ulsan Metropolitan City Chapter (June 2013-June 2014), Member of the House Steering
Committee (June 2013-June 2014), Deputy Floor Leader of the Saenuri Party (June 2013-June 2014), Member of the Trade,Industry and Energy Committee (May 2012-Present), and Mayor of the Nam-gu Office, Ulsan Metropolitan City (July
1998-February 2006). He received his B.A. in Business Administration from University of Ulsan, M.A. in Local Government from
Graduate School of Public Administration, Dongguk University, and Ph.D. in Public Administration from University of Ulsan.
Mikyung LEE is a member of the 19th National Assembly, Republic of Korea. Her party affiliation is the New Politics
Alliance for Democracy (NPAD). She has served as Co-President of P.N.N.D (Parliamentarians for Nuclear Nonproliferation andDisarmament), South Korea (2004-Present) as well as Global Council. She also serves as President of the Korea-EU
Interparliamentary Council of the National Assembly (since 2012), Member of the Land Infrastructure and Transport Committee,
National Assembly (since 2012), Member of the Environment and Labor Committee, National Assembly (2010-2012),
Secretary-General of the Democratic Party (2008-2010), Member of the Unification, Foreign Affairs, and Trade Committee,
National Assembly (2008-2010), Member of the Standing Committee, Korea Democracy Foundation (2008), Member of theStanding Committee, Korea Women's Associations United (2008), Member of the Finance and Economy Committee, National
Assembly (2006-2008), Chairwoman of the Culture and Tourism Committee, National Assembly (2004-2006), Member of theStanding Committee, the Uri Party (2004-2005), Member of the Political Reform Committee, the Millennium Democratic Party(2003), and Spokeswoman of the Campaigning Committee for Presidential Candidate Roh Moo-Hyun (2002). She graduatedfrom the Graduate School of Master in Political Science, Ewha Women’s University, Seoul, Korea.
Valere MANTELS is a Senior Political Affairs Officer in the Weapons of Mass Destruction Branch of the United Office for
Disarmament Affairs. His has a lifelong experience in the field of nuclear weapons from being a pilot trained in the nuclear rolein the cold war era to working with NATO on the issue to finally becoming an eager nuclear disarmer at the United Nations. His
focus currently is in particular on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, having managed the preparatory process for the 2015
Review Conference.

Mariko MINE is a Professor, Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition, Nagasaki University (RECNA). She has anextensive career as a researcher at Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Graduate School of Biomedical Science, Nagasaki
University.

Yoshiki MINE is a Research Director, Canon Institute for Global Studies, Japan. He was born in 1943. A career diplomat
until 2009. In the early days of his career, he served many years in China-related jobs, but later turned to multilateral areas. He
was seconded to the Defense Agency (now Defense Ministry) as the Director-General for International Relations. As
ambassador he served in Belgrade, in Geneva (for disarmament) and in Tokyo (for climate change and for Afghanistan). His last
post was the representative of the Japanese Government for the normalization negotiations with the DPRK. He has B.A. fromthe Tokyo University and M.A. from the Harvard University. He has written Switzerland: A unique constitution born from its
history, The United Nations and Disarmament and many articles.
Chung-In MOON is a professor of political science at Yonsei University, an advisory member of the ROK National Security
Council and Ambassador for International Security Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. He served as Dean ofYonsei's Graduate School of International Studies and as Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Northeast Asian
Cooperation Initiative, a cabinet-level post. He has published over 40 books and 230 articles in edited volumes and such
scholarly journals as World Politics, International Studies Quarterly, and World Development. Moon accompanied the 2000 andthe 2007 North-South Korean summit as a special delegate and was appointed as a member of president-elect Roh Moo-hyun's
high level delegation to the U.S. in 2003. He served as Vice President of the International Studies Association of North America
and president of the Korea Peace Research Association. Moon is a board member of the Korea Foundation, the Sejong
Foundation, the East Asia Foundation, and the International Peace Foundation and is Editor-in-Chief of Global Asia.

Keiko NAKAMURA is an Associate Professor, Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition, Nagasaki University(RECNA) She also serves as the Japanese Coordinator of Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament(PNND). In 2001, she joined the Peace Depot Inc., a Japanese non-profit, independent peace research institution which aims tobuild a security system that does not rely on military power, where she had served as Secretary-General from 2005-2012. She
has written numerous articles on Nuclear Weapon & Nuclear Test Monitor‛ (Peace Depot’s bi-weekly periodical) and ‚Yearbook:
Nuclear Disarmament and Peace.‛ She is a member of the Japan Association of Disarmament Studies and Japan Association of
Peace Studies.

Alexander I.NIKITIN - Director of the Center for Euro-Atlantic Security and Professor, Moscow State Institute forInternational Relations (MGIMO-University).
Prof. Nikitin also is a Chief Researcher at the Institute for World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian
Academy of Sciences. Memeber of the Sceintific Council of the Security Council of Russia, member of the Scientific-Expert
Council of the Collecrtive Security Treaty Orgabizations (CSTO). Deputy Chairman of the Russian Pugwash Committee ofscientists, member of the International Pugwash Council. President Emeritus of the Russian Political Science Association.
Yasushi NOGUCHI is Director for Arms Control and Disarmament Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan. He
graduated from the Law Faculty of Kyoto University in March 1990. He was assigned to the Arms Control and Disarmament
Division, where he was promoted to the rank of Principal Deputy Director. In this role he was in charge of nuclear
non-proliferation and disarmament. Also he served as Director for International Peace Cooperation Division and as Director for
Hokkaido Toyako Summit secretariat. Prior to the current position, he served as Director for Mexico, Central America andCaribbean Division, from August 2011 to July 2013. For foreign assignments, he served for the Japanese Embassies in Spain,
US and Peru.

Katsuya OKADA is a member of the House of Representatives from Mie Prefecture. He currently serves as a Supreme
Advisor for the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) and Chair of Political Reform and Diet Reform Promotion Headquarters of DPJ.
He had assumed the position of Deputy Prime Minister at the Reshuffled Noda Cabinet in January 2012, DPJ Secretary Generalin September 2010, and Minister for Foreign Affairs at Hatoyama Cabinet and at Kan Cabinet in 2009 to 2010. Having graduatedfrom Faculty of Law, the University of Tokyo in March 1976, he entered the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI,
now the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) in 1976. In February 1990, He was elected to the House ofRepresentatives for the first time in 1990. He is an author of Seiken Kotai: Kono Kuni Wo Kaeru (“A Change of Government:
Changing This Nation”) (2008) and Okada Gatari (Okada Talks Candidly) (2010).
Hak-Soon PAIK is a Senior Fellow and the Director of the Center for North Korean Studies at the Sejong Institute in South
Korea. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania, and was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard
University. He is an advisor to the Kim Dae-jung Peace Center, and a board member of the Korean Peace Forum. He wasformerly the Chairman of South Korea’s Ministry of Unification’s Policy Evaluation Committee, the Executive Director of theSeoul-Washington Forum, the Chairman of the Policy Committee of the Korean Council for Reconciliation and Cooperation(KCRC), and a Vice President of Korean Political Science Association. He is author of The History of Power in North Korea:
Ideas, Identities, and Structures (2010) (in Korean), “Changes and Continuities in Inter-Korean Relations” (2013), and “TheMilitary in the North Korean Politics: Its Character, Status, and Role” (2011) (in Korean).
Sun-song PARK is a professor at Dongguk University. He is teaching the relationship between two Koreas, North Korean
Economy, the unification policies of two Koreas. Park received his Ph.D. in economics at the University of Paris - X (Nanterre).
He worked as director at the Peace and Disarmament Center, PSPD and as president at the Institute of Democracy and
Policies, DUP.

Yukio SATOH is Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA).
He is a member of the Global Zero Commission, (Washington), and the International Advisory Board of RUSI International(London). Previously, he was a member of the National Commission on Public Safety (Japan), the President of JIIA
(2003-2009) and a member of the Council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS).He retired from the JapaneseForeign Service in 2002 as the Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations (1998-2002). He also served as
Ambassador of Japan to Australia (1996-1998) and the Netherlands (1994-96).

Shen DINGLI is a professor and associate dean at Fudan University’s Institute of International Studies. His research andpublication covers China-US security relations, regional security and international strategy, arms control and nonproliferation,
foreign and defense policy of China and the US etc. He is Vice President of Chinese Association of South Asian Studies,
Shanghai Association of International Studies, Shanghai Association of American Studies and Shanghai UN Research
Association. He received his Ph.D. in physics from Fudan in 1989 and did post-doc in arms control at Princeton University from
1989-1991. He was an Eisenhower Fellow in 1996, and advised in 2002 the then UN Secretary General Kofi Annan for his
strategic planning of second term. He is on the Global Council of Asia Society, and is appointed by Shanghai Municipality as
Shanghai’s Conference Ambassador. He has co-edited 17 books and published some 2000 papers and articles worldwide.
Susumu SHIRABE is a Chairman, PCU Nagasaki Council for Nuclear Weapons Abolition and the trustee for researchaffairs at Nagasaki University; he is also vice president in charge of the university’s social contribution initiatives. In addition to
being a neurologist, he also holds positions as professor at Nagasaki University Hospital and the Center for Campus Health andCommunity Medicine.
He is a second-generation atomic bomb survivor: both his mother and his grandparents survived the bombing of Nagasaki; his
grandparents have since passed away. Two of his uncles were killed in the atomic bombing when they were students. Dr.
Shirabe has been a member of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) for more than twenty years,
and he is international council member for the organization’s Japanese affiliate.
Bo-hyuk SUH is a Humanities Korea (HK) research professor at the Institute for Peace and Unification Studies (IPUS) of
Seoul National University, and was an expert adviser on the North Korean human rights at the National Human Rights
Commission of Korea. Dr. Suh major in peace and human rights on the Korean Peninsula from the perspective of international
relations study. He has been advising on South Korea’s North Korea policy to both governmental and non-governmental levels.
His recent writings include Human Security and the Two Koreas’ Cooperation (ed. 2013), The Peace of Europe and the Helsinki
Process (2012), The Helsinki Process and Security and Cooperation in Northeast Asia (2012, co-ed with Park, Kyung-seo),
Korea Human Rights: Human Rights in North Korea and Peace in the Korean Peninsula (2011),“Militarization of Korean Human
Rights” (Critical Asian Studies,2014).
Tatsujiro SUZUKI is a Vice Director, Professor of Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition (RECNA) at Nagasaki
University, Japan. Before joining RECNA, he was a Vice Chairman of Japan Atomic Energy Commission (JAEC) of the Cabinet
office from January 2010 to April 2014. Until then, he was an Associate Vice President of the Central Research Institute ofElectric Power Industry in Japan (1996-2009) and Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Tokyo(2005-009), an Associate Director of MIT’s International Program on Enhanced Nuclear Power Safety from 1988-1993 and a
Research Associate at MIT’s Center for International Studies (1993-95) where he co-authored a report on Japan's plutonium
program. 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).

Takao Takahara is Director of International Peace Research Institute, Meiji Gakuin University (PRIME). Trained at the
University of Tokyo (B.A. Politics, B.A. Public Law, and Assistant Researcher of International Politics 1979-1981), he isProfessor of International Politics and Peace Research at the Faculty of International Studies, Meiji Gakuin University since1997. He serves as Council member for the Peace Studies Association of Japan, and has held Visiting Scholar positions at thePeace Studies Program, Cornell University (1991-93), the Program on General Disarmament, University of Maryland (2000-01),
as well as at the University of Helsinki (2010) and Monterey Institute of International Studies (2011). He also was Visiting
Professor at Hope College, Michigan (2005-06), where he taught on nuclear disarmament initiatives and postwar peace issues
in Japan. He is a former Council member of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs (2011-2013), and iscurrently on the International Advisory Board of the Peace History Society.
Kazuhiko TAMAKI is a Vice President, Peace Depot Inc. He was born in 1953. He had joined the local/national peace
movements in the middle 1970s. His main interests as an activist included anti-military-bases research and campaign focusing
on the entry of the U.S. warships carrying nuclear weapons into the Japanese ports. He had also worked hard in the campaign
to support and building solidarity with the South Korean people’s struggle for democratization from 70s to 80s. He participated inestablishment of the Peace Depot 1997. Since 2004, he has been working as one of the coeditors and, since 2009, the editor inchief of the ‚Nuclear Weapon and Nuclear Test Monitor‚ biweekly newsletter issued by the Peace Depot.
Tomihisa TAUE is the Mayor of Nagasaki City. He currently serves as the President of the National Council of Japan
Nuclear Free Local Authorities, Vice-President of the Mayor for Peace, President of the Nagasaki Prefecture Association of City
Mayors, Chairperson of the Nagasaki Prefecture Association of Municipalities, and Adviser to the Japan Association of City
Mayors. Having graduated from the Faculty of Law, Kyushu University in March 1980, he began his professional career at theNagasaki City Hall. He served as the Director of the Tourism Promotion Section, Tourism Department (April 2002) and Directorof the Statistics Section, Planning Department (April 2004). He was elected as the 32nd Mayor of Nagasaki in April 2007 and the33rd Mayor of Nagasaki in April 2011.
Masao TOMONAGA is Professor Emeritus, Nagasaki University and Director Emeritus, Japanese Red Cross Nagasaki
Atomic Bomb Hospital. He was born in 1943 in Nagasaki City, where he encountered the second atomic bombing at 2.7 km fromthe hypocenter. After he graduated from Nagasaki University School of Medicine and became a physician, he majoredhematology and radiation injury medicine. He found evidences that atomic bomb radiation caused life-long body effect andinduced leukemia and cancers. He reported these findings at the 1st International Conference on Humanitarian Aspect of
Nuclear Weapons held in Oslo in 2013 and also presented a research study on the various effects of the use of nuclear
weapons at the 2nd Conference held at Nayarit, Mexico in 2014. He has been Chairman of Organizing Committee, Nagasaki
Global Citizen’s Assembly for the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons since 2009.

Hirofumi TOSAKI is a senior research fellow at the Center for the Promotion of Disarmament and Non-Proliferation(CPDNP), Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA). He is an author of numerous articles on nuclear arms control,
non-proliferation, nuclear strategy and deterrence, missile defense and so on. He earned his Ph.D from Osaka University.

Hiromichi UMEBAYASHI is Director, Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition, Nagasaki University (RECNA).
He is also Special Advisor, Former President & Founder of Peace Depot Inc., Japan. He is a PhD holder in the field of Applied
Physics from Tokyo University. After resigning from teaching in a university in 1980, he became a fulltime campaigner andresearcher for peace, disarmament and human rights issues. In April 2012, when RECNA was established, he became its
Director. He serves as the East Asian Coordinator of PNND (Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament).
Among his recent books are “Nuclear Weapon-Free Zones” from Iwanami Shoten Japan and its updated Korean version from
Seohaemunjip ROK.
Alyn WARE is a Global Coordinator, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (PNND). He isa peace educator and campaigner in the areas of peace, non-violence, nuclear abolition, international law, women’s rights,
children’s rights and the environment. He has served as the Global Coordinator for since it was founded in 2002. His previous
positions include Director of Aotearoa Lawyers for Peace, Executive Director of the (USA), Director of the Peace Foundation
Schools Outreach Programme for the UN Decade for a Culture of Peace, and Founding Director of the Mobile Peace Van. Warehas won a number of awards including the (Sweden), United Nations International Year for Peace Award (New Zealand), (New
Zealand), Alliance for Nuclear Accountability Award (USA) and Tom Perry Peace Award (Canada).

Heather WILLIAMS has been a research fellow on nuclear weapons policy in the International Security Department since
January 2013. Her current projects focus on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and humanitarian impacts of nuclear weapons.
She previously worked for the Institute for Defense Analyses in Alexandria, Virginia, and the US Department of Defense on
WMD issues including arms control, nuclear testing, and chemical and biological defences. She is a regular commentator andspeaker on US nuclear policy, Trident replacement, North Korean nuclear testing, and arms control, including chemical weapons
destruction in Syria. Ms Williams has a BA in International Relations and Russian Studies from Boston University and an MA in
Security Policy Studies from The George Washington University. She is completing her PhD in the Department of War Studies atKing’s College London on the role of trust in US-Russia arms control since the end of the Cold War. - See more at:
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Natsuo YAMAGUCHI is a member of House of Councillors. He was elected in 2001, 2007, and 2013 from Tokyo
Prefecture. He currently serves as Chief Representative of KOMEI party and a member of Committee on Foreign Affairs and ofCommittee on Fundamental National Politics of House of Councillors. Having graduated from University of Tokyo, Faculty of
Law in 1978, he began practicing as a lawyer from 1982. He had been a member of House of Representatives from 1990 to
1996, and during the period, he served as Director of Special Committee on Security, Director of Committee on Transport,
Director of Committee on Local Administration and Director of Committee on Education. He has also served as ParliamentaryVice-Minister for Japan Defense Agency. As a member of House of Councillors, he served as Director of Committee on Rules
and Administration, Chairman of Committee on Oversight of Administration and Director of Committee on Budget.
Kiho YI is a professor of Political Science at Hanshin University and executive director of the Center for Peace and Public
Integrity (CPPI) at Hanshin University. Yi is the founding member and director of the Asia Regional Initiative (ARI), a think-net
formed in 2008 in conjunction with the Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability. He was involved with Parliamentarians
for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (PNND) as a South Korean coordinator. Previously, Yi worked as secretary
general of the Korea Peace Forum from 2003 to 2006, focusing on peace and cooperation issues between North and South
Korea in the context of Northeast Asian cooperation. He also served as an advisory member of the Presidential Committee of
the Northeast Asia Initiative. From 1999 to 2002, Yi was a visiting scholar at Waseda University in Japan, looking at the local civil
movement and its links to peace in East Asia. Before 1999, he worked for ten years in the Korea Christian Academy, where hefocused on Korean political change and global peace networks. In 1997, Yi completed his Ph.D. dissertation, titled “Social
Movement Networks in the Democratization Process of Korea” at Yonsei University.