Professional Experience
Dr. Nobumasa Akiyama is Professor of International Security at the School of International and Public Policy (IPP) and the Graduate School of Law at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo. He became Director of the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA) Center for Disarmament, Science and Technology (CDAST) in August 2024.
From 2016 to 2018, he served as Minister-Counsellor at the Permanent Mission of Japan to the International Organizations in Vienna and as Special Advisor to the Ambassador on Nuclear Security while on loan to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan. He has served as an Advisor to the Japanese delegation to the NPT Review Conferences since 2000 and has been a member of the Ministry of Justice’s Public Security Examination Commission since 2021.
Selected Research Papers
His recent English-language publications include:・“Kishida’s Dual Track Nuclear Diplomacy,” Asia-Pacific Review (2023);• “Issues on Nuclear Deterrence in the Russia–Ukraine War,” Journal of World Affairs (2022);• “‘No First Use’ in the Context of the U.S.–Japan Alliance,” Asian Security (2021);• “Beyond Discharging Fukushima Water: Seeking a Regional Nuclear Safety Information Exchange Mechanism,” The Korean Journal on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Energy (2021);• “Arms Control is Japan’s Interest: An Agenda for a New Nuclear Posture Review,” Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament (2021);• “AI Nuclear Winter or AI That Saves Humanity? AI and Nuclear Deterrence,” in Joachim von Braun, Margaret S. Archer, Gregory M. Reichberg, and Marcelo Sanchez-Sorondo (eds.), Robotics, AI, and Humanity (Springer, 2021);• “Atoms for Alliance Challenges: Japan in the Liberal International Nuclear Order,” in Yoichi Funabashi and G. John Ikenberry (eds.), The Crisis of Liberal Internationalism: Japan and the World Order (Brookings Institution Press, 2020).