Japan
Direct Assistance
| Type(s)of Assistance: | General | Scope: | General |
| Regions: | All |
| Subject(s): | General |
Japan is willing to provide assistance as appropriate in response to specific requests to states lacking the legal and regulatory infrastructures, implementation experience and/or resources for fulfilling the provisions
Contributed approx. 1 million US dollars to the UN Trust Fund for Global and Regional Disarmament Activities for the full and universal implementation of 1540 in March 2017.
Provides funds for IAEA, OPCW (including many assistance projects), BWC, CTBTO, and NPT
Have offered assistance in the context of the BWC and CWC implementation
- Contributed approx. 0.9 million US dollars to the UNODA for the domestic BWC implementation and response to potential biological weapons use in 2018
- Workshop for the CWC national authority in Indonesia in December 2017
- National CWC awareness workshop and mock industry inspection exercise in Myanmar in August 2014
- OPCW Associate Program from 2004 to 2018
Regarding the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540 and other international agreements, the Government of Japan has been conducting various types of outreach activities. The purpose of outreach activities is to build an effective international framework for security export controls. Recent Japan's outreach activities are as follows.
- Aug., 2009 Japan-Vietnam Industrial Outreach Seminar (Hanoi)
- Sep., 2009 Japan-Chinese Taipei Industrial Outreach Seminar (Kaohsiung)
- Oct., 2009 Japan-Singapore Industrial Outreach Seminar (Singapore)
- Nov., 2009 Japan-Indonesia Industrial Outreach Seminar (Jakarta)
- Mar., 2010 Japan-Thailand Industrial Outreach Seminar (Bangkok)
Examples of nonproliferation assistance projects 2004 to 2007 directly related to 1540
- Provision of three Patrol Vessels to Indonesia for the Prevention of Piracy, Maritime Terrorism and Proliferation of Weapons (Jun.06, Grant Aid for Cooperation on Counter-Terrorism and Security Enhancement; 1,921 million yen)
- Asian Non-Proliferation Seminar focusing on Maritime Cooperation
- Asian Senior-level Talks on Non-Proliferation: ASTOP
- Training Course for Improvements of Implementation on Security Export Controls in Asia
- Asian Export Control Seminar (Tokyo)
- Export Control Seminars in Asian countries
- Japan co-sponsored the seminar/workshop on Prevention and Crisis Management of Chemical/Biological Terrorism with SEARCCT (Southeast Asia Regional Centre for Counter-Terrorism) in Malaysia in 2004, 2005 and 2007. Hosted the seminar in 2006
Actively promoting outreach activities towards Asian countries aimed at enhancing efforts against proliferation and taking actions and measures for capacity building for combating terrorism less directly related to 1540
- Provision of security equipment (X-ray machine, metal detector and others) for the Indonesian ports and airports (Grant Aid; 774 million yen, Jul.04)
- Study on Major Airports Security System Enforcement Plan in Indonesia
- Provision of Security Facilities and Equipment in Main International Ports of Cambodia (Aug.06, Grant Aid for Cooperation on Counter-Terrorism and Security Enhancement; 927 million yen)
- Provision of Facilities and Equipment for Enhancement of Communications System for Maritime Safety and Security of the Philippines (Jul.07, Grant Aid for Cooperation on Counter-Terrorism and Security Enhancement, 609 million yen)
- ARF Workshop on Capacity Building for Maritime Security
- Dispatch of Experts for enhancing maritime security capacity for Indonesia and Philippines
- Seminar and Dispatch of Experts on Port Security
- ASEAN-Japan Port Security Experts Meeting (Bangkok, Yokohama)
Have offered assistance through UNODC less directly related to 1540
- Strengthening Border Security to Counter Terrorist Movement Through Berbera Port, Somaliland
- Securing Containerised Supply Chains in SE Asia to Reduce the Threat Posed by DPRK’s WMD Programme
- Enhancing Air Cargo Security Through Establishment of Air Cargo Control Unit at Lahore Allama Iqbal International Airport in Pakistan
- UNODC-WCO Global Container Control Programme in Kyrgyzstan
- UNODC-WCO Global Container Control Programme in Uzbekistan
- Reducing Risks from Financing of the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Strengthening the National Frameworks of South and South East Asian Countries to Prevent Non-State Actors from Financing Their Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction
Integrated Support Center for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Nuclear Security (ISCN) of Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) organizes annual training courses on nuclear non-proliferation (Regional/International Training Course on State Systems of Accounting for and Control of Nuclear Material) and nuclear security (Regional Training Course on Physical Protection of Nuclear Materials and Facility) to the countries mainly in Asia, and contributes to strengthen nuclear non-proliferation and nuclear security. Since 2011, those two ISCN training courses have received 469 participants from 54 countries. And also, ISCN/JAEA has been contributing to nuclear non-proliferation and nuclear security through development of nuclear measurement and detection technologies including nuclear forensics in collaboration with the relevant laboratories of US and Europe.