Japan’s Export Control Initiatives: Meeting New Nonproliferation Challenges
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The Nonproliferation Review/Fall 1996 30 Dr. Bates Gill heads the Project on Security and Arms Control in East Asia at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Kensuke Ebata is a member of the Japanese Security Export Control Committee and a defense and military affairs consultant in Tokyo. Matthew Stephenson is a scholar in the East Asian Studies Department at Harvard University and the Managing Editor of the Harvard International Review. JAPAN’S EXPORT CONTROL INITIATIVES: MEETING NEW NONPROLIFERATION CHALLENGES
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