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Japan
Hiroshima Peace Institute
The Hiroshima Peace Institute is a research institute of Hiroshima City University, established in 1998 in the city that suffered the first atomic bombing. The Institute conducts interdisciplinary research on the abolition of nuclear weapons, peacebuilding and conflict resolution, and contributes to peace education and public discourse from Hiroshima's distinctive perspective on war and nuclear catastrophe.
Peace Studies Association of Japan (PSAJ)
The Peace Studies Association of Japan, founded in 1973, is the main academic society for peace research in Japan. It brings together scholars from many disciplines to study the causes of war and conditions for peace, holds annual conferences, and publishes the journal Peace Studies (Heiwa Kenkyu).
Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition (RECNA)
The Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition at Nagasaki University (RECNA) was established in 2012 as the world's first university research centre explicitly dedicated to the abolition of nuclear weapons. Based in Nagasaki, RECNA combines scholarly research on nuclear disarmament and security in North East Asia with public education and policy proposals, including its regularly updated data on world nuclear warhead stockpiles.
The Sasakawa Peace Foundation
The Sasakawa Peace Foundation is a private Japanese foundation founded in 1986 and based in Tokyo. It works to strengthen international cooperation and peace through research, policy proposals and projects on security, peacebuilding in Asia (including Myanmar and southern Thailand), ocean policy, gender equality and Japan's ties with the Islamic world and the Pacific.
Toda Peace Institute
The Toda Peace Institute is an independent, nonpartisan institute committed to advancing a more just and peaceful world through policy-oriented peace research and practice. The institute commissions evidence-based research, convenes multi-track and multi-disciplinary problem-solving workshops and seminars, and promotes dialogue across ethnic, cultural, religious and political divides. It catalyses practical, policy-oriented conversations between theoretical experts, practitioners, policymakers and civil society leaders in order to discern innovative and creative solutions to the major problems confronting the world in the twenty-first century.