Kishida zeroes in on NPT to advance nuclear disarmament

Prime minister will be first Japanese leader to attend review conference

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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, right, and U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel visit Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Park in March. © Reuters

RIEKO MIKI, Nikkei staff writer

TOKYO -- Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida looks to use the upcoming meeting on the Non-Proliferation Treaty to make a case for nuclear disarmament, seeing the 191-member framework as the best venue for the world to wrestle with the fraught topic.

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