Far-right groups protest Ukrainian president's peace plan, call it capitulation to Russia
Shooting off flares and shouting "glory to Ukraine," thousands of far-right and nationalist activists marched Monday through Kyiv, protesting President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's leadership and his long-awaited peace plan for eastern Ukraine. Zelenskiy sought to improve his patriotic credentials by visiting Ukrainian troops on the front ...
Defining the Heisei Era: Just how peaceful were the past 30 years?
Asked what characteristics best summed up the Heisei Era (1989-2019), 79 percent of Japanese people thought it would be best remembered as being “peaceful and without war.”
Pope Francis offered a Christmas wish for fraternity among people of different faiths, races or ideas, describing the world's differences as a richness, not a danger, and calling for political solutions to end wars in Syria, Yemen and elsewhere. Conflicts in Ukraine and tensions on ...
Hiroshima introduces interactive map to get tourists to visit A-bomb sites off the beaten path
Hiroshima has unveiled the Hiroshima Peace Tourism project, which includes an interactive map showing routes intended to help visitors view the city's many memorial sites beyond just the Atomic Bomb Dome in the Peace Memorial Park, the main and only destination for about half of ...
China opposition likely to stop Japanese students speaking at U.N. disarmament conference in Geneva
Japanese student peace ambassadors are unlikely to deliver a speech at this year's Conference on Disarmament in Geneva due to vehement opposition from China and other countries, a U.N. diplomatic source said Monday. If high school student ambassadors — candidates for this year's Nobel Peace ...
World debates what action to take over North Korea
Nine years after then-U.S President Barack Obama committed America to the pursuit of "a world without nuclear weapons," nine months after the U.N. adopted the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and five months after the Nobel Peace Prize Committee conferred one of ...
Kagoshima artist completes global peace mural painting trek in Okinawa
A Japanese artist has attained his goal of painting murals in 10 countries to spread a message of peace, completing the last one on his home soil to complete the three-year quest. Shinichiro Higashi finished a painting of a pigeon holding a white daisy in ...
Has pacifism always been doomed to fail in Japan?
Japan had a pacifist "constitution" long before 1947, when the current one went into effect. It was issued in the year 604, its author so esteemed, in his own time and since, as to merit the posthumous name Shotoku Taishi (Crown Prince Sage-Virtue). His ...
Yoko Ono's 'Land of Hope' peace exhibit opens in violence-torn Mexico
Yoko Ono has brought an anti-violence message to Mexico City with the opening of a participative-performance exhibit dubbed "Tierra de Esperanza," or "Land of Hope." The 82-year-old Ono told a crowd Tuesday at the city's Museum of Memory and Tolerance that "I have come here ...
Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and the United States will hold talks in Islamabad on Monday aimed at reviving the Afghan peace process. Afghan Foreign Ministry spokesman Ahmad Shekib Mostaghni said Saturday that the representatives will discuss a "roadmap for peace talks." Kabul's delegation to the one-day ...
Translators bring work by foreign peace activists to Japanese readers
Though there are many pacifist campaign groups worldwide, their efforts often go unnoticed in Japan due to the language barrier. A group of translators is seeking to change that by translating into Japanese reports produced by foreign journalists and lobbyists pushing for peace. "Information announced by ...
Central Park crowd joins Yoko Ono to celebrate Lennon's birthday by forming human peace sign
Thousands of people joined Yoko Ono in Central Park on Tuesday to try to set a world record for largest group of human bodies forming a peace sign. The record attempt to honor Ono's husband, John Lennon, didn't succeed. Still, the crowd celebrated the upcoming ...
