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Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba enters the Prime Minister's Office on Friday.
JAPAN / Politics
May 23, 2025
Ishiba and Guterres agree to deepen Japan-U.N. cooperation
Ishiba stressed the importance of the role played by the United Nations at a time when the international community faces a host of challenges.
A United Nations Security Council meeting on Tuesday. The U.N. is considering an overhaul that would represent the most sweeping reforms in decades, according to an internal memo.
WORLD / Politics
May 2, 2025
U.N. considers major overhaul amid funding crisis, internal memo shows
Deep budget shortfalls — 20% staffing cuts at UNICEF, 30% at the migration agency—have spurred urgent calls for “bold and immediate” efficiency measures.
Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya and U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres reaffirm the need for reforming the U.N. Security Council at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Monday.
JAPAN
Apr 29, 2025
Iwaya and Guterres reaffirm need for U.N. Security Council reform
Japan is promoting diplomacy through dialogue and harmony and shares the same orientation as the U.N. chief, Iwaya said.
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev speaks at the Opening Ceremony of the United Nations climate change conference COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 13, 2024
COP29 host Azerbaijan hits out at West in defense of using oil and gas
Some observers of the COP29 negotiations said the president of Azerbaijan's remarks did not bode well for a strong result from the two-week summit.
Antonio Guterres
WORLD
Oct 13, 2024
Israeli foreign minister reiterates U.N. chief Guterres is persona non grata over Iran stance
Iran fired more than 180 ballistic missiles at Israel on Oct. 1 amid an escalation in fighting between Israel and its proxy in Lebanon, Hezbollah.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield attends a U.N. Security Council meeting on Sept. 4 in New York City.
WORLD
Sep 12, 2024
U.S. supports two permanent U.N. Security Council seats for Africa
The move comes as the U.S. seeks to repair ties with Africa, where many are unhappy about Washington's support for Israel's war in Gaza.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres meets with a Palestinian child evacuated from the Gaza Strip at a hospital in El-Arish, Egypt, on Saturday.
WORLD
Mar 24, 2024
U.N. chief calls conditions in Gaza a ‘moral outrage’
For months, aid organizations have struggled to transport and distribute sufficient food and other supplies in Gaza.
A United Nations Security Council meeting to debate a resolution calling for a cease-fire in Gaza at U.N. headquarters in New York on Friday
WORLD
Dec 9, 2023
U.S. vetoes Security Council move calling for Gaza cease-fire
Washington dashed a growing clamor for an immediate cease-fire that had been led by U.N. chief Antonio Guterres and Arab nations.
Smoke rises over buildings in the Gaza Strip on Saturday amid Israeli strikes.
WORLD
Oct 21, 2023
At Cairo summit, U.N. chief urges cease-fire to end Gaza 'nightmare'
Addressing a Cairo summit, Antonio Guterres said the Palestinian enclave of 2.4 million people was living through "a humanitarian catastrophe."
Antonio Guterres, secretary-general of the United Nations, speaks during the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 21, 2023
Poor nations have 'every right to be angry' on climate: Guterres
The U.N. chief said that poorer countries had done the least to cause global warming but were bearing the brunt of its impacts.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addresses the 78th Session of the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 20, 2023
Climate fault lines in clear sight at U.N. General Assembly
Disconnects are likely to remain front and center when many of the same leaders gather in Dubai for COP28 in November.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 15, 2023
Rising seas threaten exodus on 'biblical' scale, warns U.N. head
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said countries such as Bangladesh, China, India and the Netherlands are all in danger.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 21, 2022
Russian crops and fertilizer must move 'unimpeded,' U.N. chief says
Guterres traveled this week to Ukraine, where he met the presidents of Ukraine and Turkey, Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in the western city of Lviv on Thursday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 29, 2022
Radio Liberty journalist killed in Russian missile attack on Kyiv
The blasts came as Moscow pressed an assault in the east that drew new U.S. pledges of military and humanitarian aid.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 15, 2022
U.N. chief says prospect of nuclear war over Ukraine 'within realm of possibility'
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Russia's move to raise the alert level for its nuclear forces after its invasion of Ukraine was a 'bone-chilling development.'

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After the asset-price bubble crash of the early 1990s, employment at a Japanese company was no longer necessarily for life. As a result, a new generation is less willing to endure a toxic work culture —life’s too short, after all.
How Japan's youth are slowly changing the country's work ethic