The first review of equality in Japan by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women in eight years has, however, met with a backlash from traditionalists demanding that ...

Since 2000, 98 inmates have been executed in Japan and 107 are presently on death row. The last execution in the country was carried out more than two years ago. Studies have consistently shown ...

Japanese premier unfazed at request by atomic bomb survivors that Japan should participate in Meeting of States Parties to ...

Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui on Friday urged Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba to decide on Japan's participation as an observer ...

Japan will remain the third-largest contributor to the United Nations' regular budget for 2025-27, according to a resolution adopted by the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday. The share of Japan's ...

"That's what leads Japan's government to deport foreigners it does not deem qualified to stay," Abe says. "Because of that, it sets the bar for whose rights should be protected very low. The UN ...

The mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki want the Japanese government to attend an upcoming meeting about the United Nations treaty banning nuclear weapons as an observer.

Nihon Hidankyo, the Japanese atomic bomb survivors' group that won last year's Nobel Peace Prize, urged the government on ...

"It is extremely regrettable that the UN Security Council has failed to react ... The test triggered Japan’s J-Alert satellite warning system, which issued an emergency evacuation warning ...

North Korea claimed to have carried out a successful test-firing of a new hypersonic intermediate range ballistic missile ...