Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and French President Emmanuel Macron agreed Wednesday in New York to further advance their cooperation in security and defense equipment, reiterating their commitment to maintaining the rule of law at sea. Abe and Macron agreed to speed up negotiations toward an ...
Japan prime minister asks U.N. member states to act collectively against North Korea, which has ‘no intention’ of abandoning its nuclear program.
Foreign Minister Taro Kono said Sunday the U.N. Security Council will consider reducing the number of North Koreans working outside the reclusive state as part of new sanctions. The measure is aimed at reducing funding for North Korea's nuclear and missile programs. The UNSC resolution adopted ...
North Korea has continued to make money by skirting U.N. Security Council resolutions, and its exports of banned commodities has generated at least $270 million since February, according to a classified report compiled by a U.N. panel and obtained by Kyodo News. After China suspended ...
As Hiroshima and Nagasaki marked the 72nd anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings, aging survivors deplored what they called the hypocrisy by the Japanese government following its decision to stay out of a treaty banning nuclear arms. Despite anger and calls from the survivors urging ...
A survivor of Minamata mercury poisoning disease will visit Switzerland next month to attend the first conference of signatory states to an international treaty to prevent mercury pollution, one of the organizers of her trip said Wednesday. Shinobu Sakamoto, 61, who suffered mercury poisoning while ...
Japan has joined an international convention for tackling transnational organized crime after putting into force a law penalizing the planning of a range of crimes. Tokyo submitted to the United Nations in New York an instrument of acceptance of the U.N. Convention against Transnational Organized ...
Keiko Ko was elected Thursday to serve as one of nine incoming independent experts on a U.N. committee fighting discrimination, becoming the first Japanese to do so. The Nanzan University law professor received 132 votes, the most of any candidate. She joins two other newly ...
A prominent Okinawan activist told the U.N. Human Rights Council on Thursday that the Japanese government has committed "clear human rights violations" against those opposed to the relocation plan for U.S. Marine Corps Air Base Futenma. "Civilians are protesting the militarization every day. The government ...
China said on Wednesday no one had the right to bring chaos to the Korean peninsula, a day after it pushed for full implementation of U.N. sanctions against neighboring North Korea for its missile and nuclear tests and called for dialogue. The United States has ...
Izumi Nakamitsu, the United Nations' new head of disarmament, gave her first briefing to the 15-member Security Council on Tuesday, focusing on the latest developments on chemical weapons in Syria. As the high representative for disarmament affairs, the Japanese is in charge of a wide-ranging ...
As the bill moved forward, a heated war of words broke out between Tokyo and a United Nations expert on privacy.
