The region hardest hit by last year’s nuclear disaster said Friday it will co-host a global conference on nuclear safety with the United Nations atomic watchdog in December

The region hardest hit by last year’s nuclear disaster said Friday it will co-host a global conference on nuclear safety with the United Nations atomic watchdog in December.
  
Trade minister Yukio Edano told reporters that “together with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Japan will co-host an international ministerial conference on nuclear safety from December 15 to 17.”
  
"Japan will share with the international community the knowledge and the lessons we have learned from an exhaustive study of the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant," foreign minister Koichiro Gemba said separately.
  
The announcement comes weeks before the country marks the first anniversary of the March 11 earthquake-tsunami disaster, which sparked the world's worst nuclear accident in a quarter of a century.

Last month, a delegation from the IAEA gave its seal of approval to Japan's reactor safety checks, but said utilities should beef up plans for managing disasters in the wake of the Fukushima crisis.