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The aftermath of an Israeli military strike on Tehran's Evin Prison is seen here on June 29, nearly a week after the hostilities ceased.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 13, 2026
Japan should urge Iran to release people in detention
A Japanese government spokesperson has confirmed that Iranian authorities detained a Japanese national on Jan. 20 and Tokyo has been urging Tehran to release them.
U.N. Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism Ben Saul speaks during a news conference at the European headquarters of the U.N. in Geneva on Dec. 11, 2024.
WORLD
Mar 13, 2026
World in ‘new dark age’ of abuse, U.N. rights expert says
Ben Saul said the war in the Middle East would not improve global security.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz listens to Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Vassily Nebenzia as he addresses the United Nations Security Council during a meeting on a sanctions resolution regarding the situation in Iran and the Middle East at U.N. headquarters in New York on Thursday.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 13, 2026
U.S. and allies clash with Russia and China over Iran nuclear program
At a meeting of the U.N. Security Council, Russia and China moved unsuccessfully to block a discussion about a committee on U.N. sanctions on Iran.
A mother and her daughter walk holding a heart balloon on Valentine's Day at the Lychakiv Military Cemetery in Lviv, Ukraine, on Feb. 14. The issue of Russia's deportation and forcible transfer of children is highly sensitive in Ukraine and remains central to negotiations for a potential peace agreement between Kyiv and Moscow.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 11, 2026
Russia committed ‘crimes against humanity’ in deporting Ukrainian children, U.N. says
The U.N.’s Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine has so far confirmed 1,205 cases of Russia deporting or transferring children from occupied areas of Ukraine.
Donald Trump is greeted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before the U.S. president addresses the Knesset in late October. Trump and Netanyahu’s war in Iran is struggling for moral legitimacy.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 10, 2026
When is an illegal conflict morally defensible?
Though historical examples of legitimacy trumping legality in previous wars are few and far between, they do exist.
Hiroko Akizuki, a member of the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, says the political sector is what obstructs gender equality in Japan.
JAPAN / Society
Mar 8, 2026
U.N. panel member implores Japan to address gender equality
Japan ranks 118th among the 148 economies included in the United Nations’ Global Gender Gap Index.
Naoe Yakiya, director of U.N. Women's Japan office, is interviewed in Tokyo in January.
JAPAN / Society
Mar 3, 2026
U.N. Women Japan director Naoe Yakiya stresses importance of diversity in media
Yakiya stressed the role that media and advertising can play in shaping society in an interview ahead of International Women’s Day on Sunday.
U.S. first lady Melania Trump presides over a United Nations Security Council meeting at U.N. headquarters in New York on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 3, 2026
How will the next U.N. chief be chosen and who wants the job?
A new United Nations secretary-general will be elected this year for a five-year term starting on Jan. 1, 2027.
U.S. First Lady Melania Trump departs following a State of the Union address in Washington on Feb. 24. She has dabbled in diplomacy before, notably working to try to secure the release of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 2, 2026
Melania Trump to chair U.N. Security Council as Iran war rages
Political and financial tensions have mounted between the U.S. and the United Nations in recent years, with Washington chafing at its role as the main contributor to the U.N.
A wounded Afghan woman receives treatment at a hospital in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, on Friday after an overnight Pakistani mortar shell hit a camp for people returning from Pakistan. Islamabad’s defense minister has declared that the neighbors are at “open war.”
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Feb 27, 2026
Pakistan bombs Kabul in ‘open war’ on Afghanistan’s Taliban government
Relations between the neighbors have plunged since deadly fighting in October that killed more than 70 people on both sides.
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi speaks during a news conference Friday at the ministry. Japanese officials are currently examining other countries' responses to U.S. President Donald Trump's Board of Peace initiative, while taking Tokyo's relations with Washington into consideration before making a decision on whether to join.
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 24, 2026
Japan pushes back decision on joining Trump’s Board of Peace
Japanese officials are currently examining other countries’ responses while taking Tokyo’s relations with Washington into consideration before making a decision.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres delivers a speech at the opening of the 61st session of the U.N. Human Rights Council at the United Nations office in Geneva on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 24, 2026
U.N. chief decries global rise of ‘rule of force’
In his final in-person address to the U.N.’s top rights body, Antonio Guterres said the worst conflict-hit areas were not the only places where human rights were eroding.
Kazuyuki Yamazaki, Japan's ambassador to the United Nations, speaks during an interview on Feb. 12 in New York.
JAPAN
Feb 22, 2026
Ambassador views U.N. funding woes as reform chance
“Japan wants to play a constructive role in creating an efficient and effective United Nations,” says Kazuyuki Yamazaki, Japan’s ambassador to the U.N.
Sanae Takaichi and her ruling party's election victory strengthens Japan’s stability and its role in regional and global diplomacy amid rising geopolitical uncertainty.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 20, 2026
Stability as strategy: Japan’s moment for global leadership
Rising anti-China sentiment may have contributed to Takaichi’s strong mandate.
The United Nations headquarters in New York. The U.S. recently paid the U.N. a small fraction of the roughly $2 billion it owed to the world body.
WORLD
Feb 20, 2026
U.S. pays fraction of funds owed to U.N. amid broader funding crisis
The recent U.S. payment is only about 7% of what the White House owed before making the payment.
U.S. President Donald Trump arrives for the inaugural meeting of the Board of Peace at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington on Thursday.
WORLD
Feb 20, 2026
Trump mixes diplomacy and flattery at peace board meeting
While the U.S. president has been chummy with world leaders in the past, he has typically leaned in to a good-cop-bad-cop routine.
Pope Leo XIV (center) speaks beside Italian Cardinal Baldassare Reina (right) at the end of a mass during a pastoral visit to the parish of "St. Mary Queen of Peace" at Ostia Lido, near Rome, on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 18, 2026
Vatican says it will not participate in Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’
Efforts to handle crisis situations should be managed by the United Nations, the Vatican’s top diplomatic official says.
A woman from El-Fasher cries after learning about the killing of her son and brother, in a camp in Al-Dabbah, Sudan, on Nov. 3, 2025.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 10, 2026
U.N. decries ‘preventable human rights catastrophe’ in Sudan’s El-Fasher
The conflict has been ongoing since April 2023, killing tens of thousands of people, displacing millions more and triggering one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.
The collapse of the old global order makes defending failed institutions futile, and AI governance offers a chance to rebuild effective, inclusive international cooperation for a multipolar world.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 8, 2026
New world order or bust in the age of artificial intelligence
AI governance is the opportunity to build something new and workable out of the ashes of failure.
U.N. special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in North Korea, Elizabeth Salmon, speaks during a news conference wrapping up her visit to South Korea in Seoul on Friday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 7, 2026
U.N. to give sanction exemptions on North Korea aid projects
Analysts say the move would allow those groups to provide humanitarian aid, such as nutritional supplements, medical equipment and water purification systems, to North Korea.
Uruguay federation reportedly cancels charter flight after World Cup exit
Uruguay's Jose Maria Gimenez reacts after the team's loss against Spain at the 2026 FIFA World Cup on Friday.
Inside Japan’s rigid adoption system, a British family finds a way
James Benstead, his wife, Jesse, and their three children. Their adopted son is in the rear stroller.
India’s gig workers pay the price for exposure to New Delhi’s hazardous air
Rohit Kushwaha waits for a customer as he delivers his last parcel of the day, in New Delhi in January. His work as a delivery driver has helped pay the family’s bills, but has had a significant impact on his health.
Yen hits 40-year low against the dollar, breaking ¥162 level
Japan's currency broke ¥162 to the dollar on Tuesday in Tokyo.
Japan falls in gut-wrenching fashion as Brazil strikes late to win World Cup clash
Brazil's Gabriel Martinelli (right) shoots past Japan defenders Shogo Taniguchi (left) and Takehiro Tomiyasu to score in the second half of a match in the round of 32 at the 2026 FIFA World Cup in Houston on Monday.
Japan’s fertility system offers few safe paths for same-sex couples
A Tokyo Pride parade participant holds a sign that says "we want to be a married couple, not a couple."
Inside Japan’s rigid adoption system, a British family finds a way
James Benstead, his wife, Jesse, and their three children. Their adopted son is in the rear stroller.
A French ship with close ties to Japan combines arts and sciences on the high seas
Romain Troublé, the executive director of Tara Ocean Foundation, speaks to visitors aboard the Tara during a rare port call in Tokyo in April.
In Kyushu’s far south, Senti.U sparks a culinary destination
Chef Yasuhiko Uchida was born in Saga Prefecture but has made his home in Kanoya, Kagoshima Prefecture, since 2012.
‘The colors speak for themselves’: How Japan’s chroma bible went global
“A Dictionary of Color Combinations” is meant to function as a quick-reference guide for artists, designers and anyone with a passing interest in aesthetics as a quantifiable pursuit.

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