Japan's top government spokesperson says his government will closely watch the impacts of the US withdrawal from the World ...

A United Nations panel called Japan's method of execution 'cruel', among other criticisms of its use of capital punishment People in Japan are expressing their anger after a United Nations panel ...

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 ...

A new U.N. standard inspired by Japan's volunteer probation officer system is being developed, government sources said Sunday ...

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

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 ...

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

The United Nations says the world economy resisted battering by conflicts and inflation last year and is expected to grow a ...

North Korea claimed to have carried out a successful test-firing of a new hypersonic intermediate range ballistic missile (IRBM) on Monday, with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who observed the ...