ICAN chief urges Diet debate on Japan joining nuke ban treaty

The leader of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning antinuclear group has called for parliamentary discussions in Japan on the possibility of Tokyo signing the U.N. nuke ban treaty, warning that staying out would make the country an "outlier" of the global disarmament movement.Beatrice Fihn, executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, told representatives of nine political parties and the government in an open forum Tuesday that Japan needs to abandon its defense policy relying on the umbrella of U.S. nuclear deterrent, calling it an "outdated" theory based on the t…READ FULL ARTICLE