A United Nations volunteer from Japan has said as a teenager he was motivated by the “passion” of young people he met on an ...

A United Nations human rights panel says Japan committed an "extrajudicial abuse of process" by arresting ex-Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn multiple times to keep him in jail for months.

A new book reveals that the leader's maternal grandfather was a Japan-based smuggler who had to flee to North Korea to escape ...

A United Nations report on gender equality, combined with the recent defeat of Japan's conservative-minded Liberal Democratic Party, has triggered renewed optimism that legal changes can be forced ...

Japan on Wednesday said it will freeze voluntary funding for a United Nations’ women’s rights panel that called for an end to the country's male-only imperial succession rule. The unusual step ...

Japan won't join UN meeting on nuclear weapons ban, citing support for US deterrence. Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi attends at a press conference in Tokyo Monday, March 3, 2025.

Japan Japan's PM offered to meet with Kim Jong Un 'as soon as possible,' North Korea says Relations between the countries have been strained in part because of North Korea's 2002 abduction of 13 ...

Japan's prime minister announced Wednesday an additional $800 million contribution to the U.N.-backed initiative to provide COVID-19 vaccines to poor countries, a four-fold increase of Japanese ...

Japan won approval from the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog on Tuesday for its plan to release treated radioactive water from the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima plant into the ocean, despite fierce resistance ...

Taiwan, which split from China amid civil war in 1949 but has been drawing ever closer to Beijing in the 4½ years since Ma Ying-jeou became president, has become a wild card in the Japan-China ...

Japan is to freeze voluntary funding for a United Nations' women's rights panel over its recommendation that Japan's male-only imperial succession rule should be revised from gender-equality ...