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UNITED NATIONS

Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 27, 2017
North Korea spy agency runs arms operation out of Malaysia, U.N. says
It is in Kuala Lumpur's "Little India" neighborhood, behind an unmarked door on the second floor of a rundown building, where a military equipment company called Glocom says it has its office.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 22, 2017
Trump is from Mars, Guterres is from Venus
The U.S. president and U.N. secretary-general are polar opposites, but if the world is to weather the gathering storm, the two will have to work together.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Feb 21, 2017
China says North Korean coal ban shows its sincerity on U.N. resolutions
China's suspension of imports of North Korean coal shows it is sincere about implementing U.N. Security Council resolutions punishing North Korea over its nuclear weapons and missile programs, it said on Tuesday.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 19, 2017
U.N. Charter's anachronistic enemy state clauses
It's high time the U.N. shed its image as an institution created by the victorious Allied powers and create a level playing field for all its members.
JAPAN
Dec 21, 2016
Japan will oppose South Sudan arms embargo, government source says
Japan will oppose a U.S.-backed draft U.N. Security Council resolution to impose an arms embargo on South Sudan, government sources said Wednesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 19, 2016
U.S. presses Japan to back South Sudan arms embargo despite fears of backlash against peacekeepers
Tokyo is under pressure to back a U.N. Security Council resolution that would impose an arms embargo on South Sudan.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 28, 2016
Incoming U.N. chief urges respect for human rights in visit to China
The United Nations needs to make sure there is an "effective combination" of human, civil and economic rights in a world where many rights are not respected, U.N. secretary-general-elect Antonio Guterres said on Monday during a visit to Beijing.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 24, 2016
U.N.'s North Korea expert vows efforts to resolve abduction issue
Tomas Ojea Quintana, the visiting U.N. special rapporteur on North Korea, said he will make every effort to resolve the abduction issue.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 6, 2016
A critical agenda for Guterres
Incoming U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will have a very full plate when he takes up his post next January.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 4, 2016
Myanmar to resume humanitarian aid to troubled northern Rakhine: diplomats
Myanmar has agreed to allow aid to resume to the troubled north of Rakhine state and permit international observers to monitor whether help is reaching people displaced by violence, diplomats on a mission to the area told reporters on Thursday.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 1, 2016
Japan, EU submit resolution to U.N. on North Korea's human rights violations
Japan and the European Union on Monday tabled to a U.N. General Assembly panel a draft resolution denouncing widespread violations of human rights in North Korea.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 27, 2016
Japan playing 'victim' in nuclear abolition motion, says China
China again plans to vote against a Japan-led resolution calling to abolish nuclear weapons on the grounds that Tokyo is using the atomic bomb survivors to present itself as a victim of World War II, according to a Chinese envoy.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 18, 2016
High hopes for new U.N. chief
Antonio Guterres knows what it takes to be a strong and effective U.N. secretary-general.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 17, 2016
Secretary-general for the world
Incoming U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres possesses a rare combination of background, skills and experiences highly relevant to leading the United Nations.
EDITORIALS
Oct 11, 2016
A good choice, yet still disappointing
The failure to follow through on the expectation that the next U.N. secretary-general would be a woman is a reminder of the flaws in that selection process and the glass ceiling that more than half the world's population continues to confront.
WORLD
Oct 9, 2016
U.S. envoy Power says Washington will use all available means to pressure North Korea
Washington will use all available means outside the U.N. Security Council to isolate North Korea over its nuclear weapons program and counter its growing threat to world order, the U.S. envoy to the United Nations said Sunday.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 27, 2016
Next secretary-general: no charisma required
People with strong opinions and a record of taking decisive action don't become U.N. secretary-generals.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 21, 2016
Abe pledges additional $100 million in aid for refugees at U.S.-led summit
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday pledged $100 million in fresh aid during a U.S.-led refugee summit in New York.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 23, 2016
Only the Philippines has to worry about Duterte
Human rights, the rule of law and the United Nations are getting short shrift in the war on drugs launched by 'Duterte Harry.'
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 10, 2016
Reform elected membership of the U.N. Security Council
Expanding the U.N. Security Council's elected membership and increasing their terms could make the body more effective.
Japan says Biden's description of nation as xenophobic is 'unfortunate'
The National Diet building in Tokyo
With eye on China, defense chiefs agree to bolster interoperability
From left: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Australian defense chief Richard Marles, Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara and Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro hold a joint news conference in Honolulu on Thursday.
The 'outsiders' creating some of Japan's greenest spaces
Rows of irises resemble a rice field at the Peter Walker-designed Toyota Municipal Museum of Art.
Japan drops to 70th in press freedom rankings
A businessman reads a newspaper outside a train station in Tokyo.
Traders spooked by intervention risk trim record yen shorts
Traders edged back from record bets on yen weakness this past week, in a period that included a likely bout of intervention by Japan to prop up the currency.
'Monster' Inoue ready to tear down Luis Nery in title defense at Tokyo Dome
Naoya Inoue (left) and Luis Nery following a pre-fight news conference in Yokohama on Saturday, two days ahead of their super bantamweight title fight.
Debate on constitutional revision at a standstill despite Kishida's pledges
With less than two months left before the conclusion of the current session of parliament, any possibility that Prime Minister Fumio Kishida can deliver constitutional reform before the end of his term as Liberal Democratic Party president in late September, as he has promised, appears remote.
Sapporo court ruling on Ainu fishing rights presents tough questions
A traditional Ainu preserved food called <i>satchep</i> (dried fish) being made at the government-run National Ainu Museum and Park, nicknamed Upopoy, in the town of Shiraoi, Hokkaido, on Dec. 25. The Sapporo District Court ruled last month that the Raporo Ainu Nation's rights as an Indigenous people did not extend to having an inherent right to fish for commercial reasons.
With eye on China, defense chiefs agree to bolster interoperability
From left: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Australian defense chief Richard Marles, Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara and Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro hold a joint news conference in Honolulu on Thursday.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.

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