Prime Minister of JapanFumio Kishida published a book entitled Toward Nuclear-Weapon-Free World: ACourageous Will of a Peaceful Nation(Nikkei BP) in October 2022just in time for the election for the President of the Liberal Democratic Party, Japan. In his policy speeches after taking office as Prime Minister, he repeatedly spoke on efforts toward abolition of nuclear weapons “in order to move even one step closer to the world free of nuclear weapons” (December 2021), or “to take advantage of the opportunity of G7 Summit to be held in Hiroshima” (January 2023).