Prime Minister Fumio Kishida plans to press world powers to provide greater transparency on their nuclear forces, and urge the United States and China to hold a dialogue on nuclear disarmament and arms control, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.
Kishida is expected to call for these steps in a speech at the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) review conference that starts on Monday in New York .
According to sources, arrangements also are being made to have political leaders from various nations discuss nuclear disarmament at a meeting to be held in Hiroshima in late November.
