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Int'l confab on humanitarian impact of nuclear arms

VIENNA, Austria - Toshio Sano, ambassador of the Delegation of Japan to the Conference on Disarmament, speaks at the third Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons in the Austrian capital of Vienna on Dec. 9, 2014.

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Nagasaki student peace envoy attends disarmament confab

GENEVA, Switzerland - Masaki Koyanagi (L), one of 20 Japanese high school students visiting the United Nations Office at Geneva, attends the Conference on Disarmament with Japanese Ambassador Toshio Sano on Aug. 19, 2014.

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Japan assumes presidency of Geneva disarmament confab

GENEVA, Switzerland - Toshio Sano, Japanese ambassador to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, moderates a session as the new president of the conference in the Swiss city of Geneva on March 18, 2014. Sano said in his statement that disarmament was a central pillar of Japan's foreign policy and that the Japanese people strongly desired a world without nuclear weapons.

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Japanese envoy says too early to negotiate treaty to ban nukes

Toshio Sano (L), ambassador of the Delegation of Japan to the Conference on Disarmament, speaks at a U.N. meeting on nuclear disarmament in Geneva on Feb. 22, 2016. Sano argued against starting negotiations early on an agreement to outlaw nuclear weapons, saying the stage is not yet set for such talks given the current security situation as seen in North Korea's recent nuclear test. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan requests Hiroshima invite to be reinstated in disarmament paper

Toshio Sano (C), Japan's ambassador for disarmament, listens on May 15, 2015, to a speech by Chinese Ambassador for Disarmament Affairs Fu Cong at a meeting of the U.N. committee on disarmament at a conference to review the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. At the meeting, Sano called for the return of language in the final communique referring to possible visits by world leaders to Hiroshima and Nagasaki after it was removed from a draft at China's insistence. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan requests Hiroshima invite to be reinstated in disarmament paper

Toshio Sano (L in middle row), a Geneva-based Japanese ambassador for disarmament, speaks at a meeting of the committee on disarmament, part of the review conference on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, at United Nations Headquarters in New York on May 15, 2015. Sano called for the return of language referring to possible visits by leaders to Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the outcome document of the review conference after it was removed from a draft paper at China's insistence. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Int'l confab on humanitarian impact of nuclear arms

VIENNA, Austria - Toshio Sano, ambassador of the Delegation of Japan to the Conference on Disarmament, speaks at the third Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons in the Austrian capital of Vienna on Dec. 9, 2014. (Kyodo)

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Nagasaki student peace envoy attends disarmament confab

GENEVA, Switzerland - Masaki Koyanagi (L), one of 20 Japanese high school students visiting the United Nations Office at Geneva, attends the Conference on Disarmament with Japanese Ambassador Toshio Sano on Aug. 19, 2014. (Kyodo)

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U.N. committee passes draft resolution on nuke abolition talks

Japan's Ambassador Toshio Sano attends the First Committee of the U.N. General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Oct. 27, 2016. At the panel, 123 countries voted for a new resolution that for the first time calls for the start of negotiations to outlaw nuclear weapons, and 38 -- including Japan -- against. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.N. committee passes draft resolution on nuke abolition talks

Japan's Ambassador Toshio Sano meets with reporters at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Oct. 27, 2016. At a U.N. panel, 123 countries voted for a new resolution that for the first time calls for the start of negotiations to outlaw nuclear weapons, and 38 -- including Japan -- against. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.N. panel adopts report backing negotiations to ban nukes

Japan's disarmament envoy Toshio Sano raises a board for abstention from voting in a meeting of U.N. working group on nuclear disarmament in Geneva on Aug. 19, 2016. The group adopted a report recommending to the U.N. General Assembly that negotiations begin in 2017 to outlaw nuclear weapons. Japan has maintained that the stage is not yet set for such talks, citing threats from North Korea. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo