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From the Editors: Out of the Fire, Into the Frying Pan?
Report on the GMO-Free Zone Movement in Japan
Japan’s Animal Welfare Scandal: The Consumer Response
Energy Shift
“We Will Not be Complicit in War, and We Will Not Let it Happen”
In the News: Failed NPT Treaty
From the Editors:
Out of the Fire, Into the Frying Pan?
It seems this year we are dealing with a number of difficult issues at the same time, from the Covid Pandemic and Climate Change, to Russia’s war in Ukraina. Food security and energy supply issues are now in the news on a daily basis.
Japan’s PM Kishida meanwhile failed miserably in the United Nations to get a meaningful result at the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference, with profound disappointment especially in the City of Hiroshima, which he represents.
The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) notes that 13,080 nuclear weapons still exist on the Earth, with the U.S. and Russian nuclear stockpiles together constituting approximately 90 percent of the total. (There used to be over 70,000 back during the Cold War, ed.)
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