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JAPAN
Mar 7, 2021
U.N. crime prevention conference kicks off in Kyoto
The Kyoto congress will focus on greater international cooperation efforts between nations to address long-standing cross-border crimes ranging from cybercrime to human trafficking.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 7, 2021
After coup in Myanmar, a career diplomat takes a stand
In Myanmar embassies around the world, diplomats are struggling with whether to represent a military that has locked up their elected leaders.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 3, 2021
Myanmar's U.N. envoy and junta make rival claims to representation
The claims to represent Myanmar will now likely have to be considered by a U.N. credentials committee that reports to the General Assembly, which will then make the final decision.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 27, 2021
Small island states and Britain warn U.N. of climate threats to security
Weather-related disasters are displacing 16 million people a year, with water shortages and crop failures making vulnerable people prey to human traffickers, the British prime minister said.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Feb 22, 2021
Road to renewed Iran nuclear deal likely to be long and bumpy
It took seven years from the summer's day in 2008 when a top U.S. diplomat first sat down with his Iranian counterpart until the two sides sealed the 2015 Iran nuclear deal that aimed to keep Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 4, 2021
U.N. climate chief urges world 'in a tough spot' to keep fighting warming
Like the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change is a problem countries must work together to address or "all nations will feel the reverberations," the United Nations' climate chief warned on Wednesday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 27, 2021
China overtook U.S. in foreign direct investment, U.N. agency says
China overtook the U.S. as the largest recipient of foreign direct investment in 2020, a year in which overall global flows cratered by 42% as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, a United Nations trade agency said.
JAPAN / Explainer
Jan 20, 2021
As U.N. nuclear treaty comes into force, Japan sees different path to nonproliferation
Nuclear weapons states, as well as Japan, have refused to sign the treaty, preferring arms control treaties that they hope will lead to the elimination of all nuclear weapons.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 2, 2021
Iran notifies U.N. of plans to enrich uranium to 20%
Iran has informed the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog that it may start enriching uranium to levels well above those allowed under the terms of the 2015 nuclear deal, the semi-official Iranian Students’ News Agency reported.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 10, 2020
Earth is still sailing into climate chaos, report says, but its course could shift
While there are signs of a sea change, including from some of the biggest polluters in the world, all is not well.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Dec 9, 2020
Many countries to miss Paris climate plan deadline due to COVID-19 delays, U.N. says
The U.N. Development Programme supports 115 of the 197 countries that signed the 2015 Paris deal through its 'Climate Promise' program which includes many of the world's poorest nations.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 3, 2020
Fossil fuel production far exceeds climate targets, U.N. says
Some of the largest fossil fuel producers in the world, including Australia, China, Canada and the United States, are among those pursuing major expansions in fossil fuel supply.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 24, 2020
Ghosn’s repeated arrests 'extrajudicial abuse,' says U.N. panel
While Ghosn is unlikely to ever face trial or detention in Japan again, the report could be relevant for several ongoing proceedings related to the former auto executive.
JAPAN
Oct 25, 2020
U.N. nuke ban treaty to enter effect Jan. 22, heaping pressure on Japan to join
Tokyo has so far resisted domestic and international calls to join, saying a pact without the participation of nuclear powers was not practical.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 24, 2020
A decade after U.N.-linked cholera outbreak, Haitians demand justice
In the middle of a coronavirus pandemic, it is another, more deadly disease that keeps 20-year-old Haitian Loubean Jean up at night — cholera.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 23, 2020
How the green revolution is harming Africa
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, around two billion people globally were experiencing food insecurity, and close to 750 million faced chronic or severe hunger.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 23, 2020
Arab states should avoid an arms race with Iran
The best way for the Saudis and other Arab states to respond to an armed Iran is to work with the U.S. to create an effective secondary sanctions regime.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 8, 2020
Climate change-hit nations say survival hangs on tougher 2020 action
The world is set for warming of close to 3 degrees Celsius over preindustrial times even if emissions-cutting pledges made so far are delivered.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 6, 2020
Political 'retreat' on Paris pact harms all nations, U.N. climate chief says
Rich nations are failing on promises to help poorer ones meet the goals of the Paris agreement on climate change, even though such help would be "not charity but a global act of self-interest," U.N. climate chief Patricia Espinosa said on Monday.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 30, 2020
If we can’t ban nukes, let’s stigmatize them
Since the end of the Cold War, most people have become much less afraid of nuclear war, when instead they should worry more.
Foreign residents closely follow Japan's election and party pledges
A police officer walks past posters of Liberal Democratic Party candidates, as well as one showing Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, outside the party's headquarters in Tokyo on Sunday. As Japan’s foreign population continues to rise, one of the talking points during Sunday’s election was how the country should deal with the increase of international residents.
‘Japanese First’ Sanseito emerges as powerful force after Upper House poll
Sanseito leader Sohei Kamiya in Tokyo on Sunday night
The rise of AI companionship in a lonely Japan
In 2020, 38% of all households were single-person. That figure is projected to rise to 44.3% by 2050.
Ishiba clings to leadership after election setback
“As the first party in parliament, we have to fulfill our responsibility with the public so as to prevent politics from stagnating or drifting away,” Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said at a news conference at the Liberal Democratic Party headquarters in Tokyo on Monday.
Japan ruling bloc loses majority in Upper House after election drubbing
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who serves concurrently as president of the Liberal Democratic Party, leaves at the party's headquarters following announcement of Upper House election result projections in Tokyo early Monday.
Japan’s top brands get tied up in the great sunscreen debate
A coral reef in Okinawa in July 2022. Some jurisdictions around the world have moved to ban certain sunscreens in a bid to protect coral reefs, but some say the impact on reefs is far from clear.
Pentagon looks to unleash ‘military drone dominance’
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth hosts a drone demonstration at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, on July 10.
‘Noto Democracy’ and the slow work of civic change
Yukio Iokibe’s “Noto Democracy" centers on Motoyuki Takii, a former junior high school teacher who publishes a handwritten newspaper every month to encourage the residents of Anamizu, Ishikawa Prefecture, to engage in local politics.
In microbes we trust: Embracing the nature of fermented food
You don't need an oven to make Kenji Morimoto's easy and delicious Miso Sticky Toffee Crepe Cake.
Touring the Silk Road — without leaving Tokyo
One of the entrances to Pao Compound, a nine-story Silk Road-inspired complex in Tokyo's Higashinakano neighborhood

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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In 2020, 38% of all households were single-person. That figure is projected to rise to 44.3% by 2050.
The rise of AI companionship in a lonely Japan
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