Masako Toki

Senior Education Project Manager
Research Associate
Nonproliferation Education Program

[email protected]
Monterey, CA
831.647.3580

Activities

Masako Toki is a Senior Project Manager and Research Associate at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute in Monterey, CA. She is passionate about disarmament and nonproliferation education for young generations.  She coordinates the Critical Issues Forum (CIF) to promote disarmament and nonproliferation education to high school students and teachers in the US, Japan, Russia and other countries, and the Summer Undergraduate Nonproliferation Fellowship Program. Her research interests include Japan’s nuclear disarmament policy, nonproliferation and disarmament education, humanitarian initiative, and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

She is also a member of the Japan Association of Disarmament Studies and the US-Japan Leadership Program (US-Japan Foundation).

Areas of Research

• Nonproliferation and Disarmament Education
• Japan’s nuclear disarmament, nonproliferation, and nuclear energy policy
• Japan’s missile defense policy
• Nuclear disarmament and the NPT

Background

Ms. Toki was selected as an intern for the Office of External Relations and Policy Coordination at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna (January through June 2001.) She was a Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellow at the Union of Concerned Scientists in Washington, DC where she conducted her research on National Missile Defense. She taught the Japanese section of the Monterey Model Course “Current Issues in Nonproliferation” as a content expert.

Education

• M.A. in International Policy Studies from the Monterey Institute of International Studies with a Certificate in Nonproliferation Studies, 2000.

CNS Work

• 2015 Critical Issues Forum in Hiroshima for the Atomic Bombings 70th Anniversary
  American & Russian high school students to join Japanese students in Hiroshima
• Obama’s Prague Agenda Is for Youth to Inherit
  Opinion: Nonproliferation & disarmament education for high school students has never been more important.
• High School Disarmament and Nonproliferation Education Forum
  APRIL 4-5, 2014: CNS brings together students from Japan, Russia & the US to study nuclear Issues.
• International High School Conference on a World Free of Nuclear Weapons
  APR. 19: The Critical Issues Forum concluded with students from three countries presenting their findings on nuclear disarmament.
• Virtual Science Challenge for Youth Online Conference
  NOV. 1: US and Russian high school students participate in the first online conference investigating solutions for nuclear spent fuel.
• High School Science Challenge Draws Attention of US and Russian Presidents
  The program was touted as an example of US-Russian cooperation in the presidential joint statement.
• Fukushima’s Impact on Japan’s Nuclear Fuel Cycle Policy
  One year after the Fukushima disaster, Japan continues to assess its dependency on nuclear energy.
• US and Russian High School Students Tackle Nuclear Nonproliferation Challenges
  Masako Toki May 7, 2010 Critical Issues Forum (CIF) Program: 2009-2010 Students and teachers from 12 US high schools and 10 schools in Russia’s “closed nuclear cities” met together at the 2010 conference of the Critical Issues Forum (CIF) held April 22-23 in Monterey. This year’s conference, the largest since the program began at CNS in 1998, welcomed over ...
• A World Free of Nuclear Weapons for the Next Generation
  US and Russian high school students presented research on nuclear disarmament at the 2009 Critical Issues Forum (CIF) Conference.
• US and Russian High School Teachers Discuss Nuclear Disarmament
  Masako Toki January 6, 2009 Critical Issues Forum (CIF) Teacher Development Workshop Twenty teachers from US and Russian high schools launched the 2008-2009 Critical Issues Forum (CIF) with the Teacher Development Workshop, which took place from December 4 to 6, 2008 at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) in Monterey. Teachers from high schools in California, Hawaii, ...

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Bibliography

• “Leaving its Comfort Zone: Japan’s Special Role in Creating a World Free of Nuclear Weapons” Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, August 17, 2011.
• “Japan’s Defense Guidelines: New Conventional Strategy, Same Old Nuclear Dilemma,” Nuclear Threat Initiative, March 2011.
• “Japan’s nuclear dilemma, Nuclear trade vs nuclear disarmament advocacy,” Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, November 3, 2010.
• “Taking control: Stopping North Korean WMD-related procurement” (coauthor), Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, September/October 2010 vol. 66 no. 5.
• “U.S.-Japan Missile Defense Cooperation: Allies to Move in New Direction?” WMD Insights, January 2010
• “Japan’s Evolving Security Policy: Along Came North Korea’s Threats” Nuclear Threat Initiative.
• “The North Korean nuclear test: The Japanese reaction” Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Online edition, May 27, 2009.
• “Japan’s response to the North Korean satellite launch,” Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Online edition, April 3, 2009.
• “Missile Defense in Japan,” Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Online edition, January 2009.
• “Japan and the Future of Nuclear Disarmament,” Foreign Policy in Focus, July 2008.
• “Japan’s new Prime Minister faces India Dilemma,” Asia Times Online, September 2007.