Toshitaka TAKEUCHI    Department   Kyoto University of Foreign Studies  Department of Global Studies, Faculty of Global Engagement    Position   Professor
Date	2019/11/11
Presentation Theme	Taiwan’s Past Attempt to Go Nuclear VS. Japan’s Potential Nuclear Capabilities
Conference	A Defense Workshop, Defense Policy and Strategic Development: Coordination Between Japan and Taiwan
Promoters	Research Institute, St. Andrew’s University, Japan　and Taiwan Center for Security Studies, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Conference Type	Workshop/Symposium
Presentation Type	Speech (General)
Contribution Type	Individual
Venue	Taiwan Center for Security Studies at National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan
Details	This presentation described and compared Taiwan’s efforts and attempt to go nuclear and japan's research activities on the utilities for going nuclear. Taiwan’s efforts were real and eventually abandoned under enormous pressure from the US in January 1988. Japan had made some researches on going nuclear, the most famous of which are 1968/70 reports. All the reports concluded that it is not a good policy that Japan goes nuclear. The difference is that Taiwan made the real efforts, whereas Japan just did some research and no real efforts to go nuclear were there.