Hiraki attends TPNW meeting, speaks at parliamentarian conference

March 5 , 2025

Komeito House of Councillors member Daisaku Hiraki, the vice chair of the party’s committee to abolish nuclear arms, attended the Third Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) held in New York on March 3. He spoke at the meeting’s Parliamentarian Conference on the same day, calling for a united front to free the world of these weapons.

Describing nuclear abolition as one of Komeito’s founding principles, Hiraki said the party will be examining ways the Japanese government can contribute to TPNW events going forward.

Hiraki cited two emerging perils that should be addressed at the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)’s review conference to be held in 2026: the lowering threshold of the “nuclear taboo” and “nuclear order,” both of which have served to restrain the use of the weapons but are now being threatened by global events. He called for the review conference’s agenda to include constructive discussions on a “no-first-use” policy and fortifying negative security assurances in which a nuclear-arms state pledges not to attack another state without nuclear arms, with the weapon.

Moreover, Hiraki reaffirmed the value of hibakusha testimonies in galvanizing global public opinion against nuclear weapons and urged political leaders across the world to visit the ground-zero sites of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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