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WAR CRIMES

International Criminal Court President Tomoko Akane speaks in a video in October, criticizing U.S. sanctions against her and her institution.
JAPAN
Nov 3, 2026
ICC president urges U.N. members to defend court against U.S. sanctions
President Tomoko Akane used an annual report to warn that sanctions imposed by Washington threaten international justice and the rule of law.
Emergency employees carry a person injured at a railway station in Dnipro, Ukraine, following a Russian drone strike on Thursday.
WORLD
Oct 29, 2026
‘Horrific’ Russian drone strike kills 14 at Ukraine train station
Images released by Ukrainian emergency services showed bodies on the platform and rescuers helping victims to safety.
The International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands. Japan should support the ICC while leading reforms that strengthen its legitimacy.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 29, 2026
Tokyo should lead ICC reform, not just defend it
The better path is harder but more defensible: preserve the court, reform its operation and confront the limits of international law honestly.
Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Tatsunori Ibayashi visited Tokyo’s war-related Yasukuni Shrine on Monday during its autumn festival as part of a cross-party group.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 19, 2026
Second minister visits Yasukuni Shrine during its autumn festival
Liberal Democratic Party General Council chair Hiroshi Kajiyama also made a ritual cash offering on behalf of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi made a ritual tree stand offering to the war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Saturday.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 18, 2026
Takaichi makes ritual offering to Yasukuni Shrine
The prime minister is expected to skip a visit to the Shinto shrine during the three-day festival, which runs through Monday.
South African jurist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Navi Pillay poses in Nuremberg, Germany, on Friday, soon after being awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 13, 2026
And the Nobel Peace Prize goes to the opposite of Trump
ICC jurists have now been frozen out of everything from bank accounts to VISA and Mastercard credit cards and Amazon subscriptions.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi participates in a bilateral meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump during the United Nations General Assembly in New York City on Sept. 22.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Oct 11, 2026
Takaichi again in a bind as U.S. threatens to ‘end’ ICC
Japan, which hosts roughly 60,000 U.S. service members and depends on Washington for its security, will need to walk a fine line as it pushes back.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio shakes hands with Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi as they meet on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City on Sept. 21.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 11, 2026
Rubio cites ‘necessity’ of U.S. sanctions on ICC in call with Japanese counterpart
The court’s legislative body demanded “the immediate revocation” of the sanctions, urging “the international community to stand firm” in its defense.
Navanethem Pillay speaks during a news briefing at the United Nations headquarters in New York in 2022.
WORLD
Oct 9, 2026
Nobel Peace Prize goes to international jurist Navi Pillay
The committee said it awarded Pillay for her efforts to promote peace and international law.
A Palestinian woman with a child walks past the rubble of houses destroyed during the Israeli military offensive against Hamas in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, in November 2024.
EDITORIALS
Oct 9, 2026
Oct. 7 was a tragedy, what followed was worse
There have been no winners among the moving forces of this tragedy although some actors on the periphery of the fight may have benefited.
In 2023, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin over alleged war crimes in Ukraine, prompting Russia to place ICC officials, including President Tomoko Akane, on its wanted list.
JAPAN
Oct 9, 2026
Japan calls Russia’s request to extradite ICC head Akane regrettable
In 2023, the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin for his country’s invasion of Ukraine.
One of the two passenger buses struck by projectiles in Kramatorsk, near the front line in eastern Ukraine, on Thursday.
WORLD
Oct 9, 2026
Zelenskyy accuses U.S. of inaction as Russian strikes kill over 70 in two days
Ukraine’s president criticized Washington’s effort to pursue economic ties with Russia while also seeking to mediate the more than four-year war.
A woman visits the site of the Nova music festival in southern Israel on Wednesday.
WORLD
Oct 8, 2026
Israelis mark three years since Oct. 7 as Palestinians mourn Gaza’s destruction
The attacks of Oct. 7, 2023, were the deadliest day in Israel’s history, and Israel’s subsequent actions in Gaza have killed more than 74,000.
Rescuers work outside a damaged five-story residential building following a Russian drone attack in Kyiv on Wednesday.
WORLD
Oct 8, 2026
Zelenskyy condemns one of Russia’s most ‘vile strikes’ as at least 32 killed
The heaviest losses were in Pryluky in Ukraine’s northern Chernihiv region, where a Russian missile obliterated a five-story residential building.
Smoke rises as fire burns following a Myanmar military airstrike, according to a rebel group that controls the area and a local aid worker, in Kyauktaw, Rakhine State, Myanmar, in this screen grab obtained from a social media video released Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 30, 2026
U.N. alarmed by reports that Myanmar air strike killed 50
The Kyauktaw airstrike is the deadliest such attack since a December hospital bombing killed at least 30 people.
The International Criminal Court in The Hague on Tuesday. The U.S. is considering imposing sanctions as soon as this week against the entire ICC,
WORLD / Politics
Sep 25, 2026
Trump tells countries to quit ICC. Few follow his lead.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s appeal capped an escalating U.S. campaign against the Hague-based court, which Washington says oversteps its authority.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel speaks during the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters on Thursday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 25, 2026
Israel prevented genocide, Netanyahu says in defense of country’s actions
In his U.N. speech, the leader sought to counter growing international isolation ahead of elections he could lose, as dozens of delegates walked out.
The International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, on Sept. 22, 2025
WORLD / Politics
Sep 21, 2026
Trump administration prepares sanctions against ICC
U.S. officials want the court to drop its arrest warrants against Israeli leaders as well as a past probe into American troops in Afghanistan.
The Minab school, which was damaged in a missile strike on Feb 28, in Minab, Iran, on Aug. 27.
WORLD
Sep 18, 2026
U.S. strike on Iranian school may be war crime, U.N. panel says
The group also blamed the Iranian government for “gross human rights violations and crimes against humanity,” including in recent violent crackdowns.
Mark Merphy plays the young Allen Nelson, a U.S. Marine whose real-life experiences in the Vietnam War are dramatized in Shinya Tsukamoto’s “Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People?”
CULTURE / Film
Sep 18, 2026
‘Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People?’: A passionate but uneven anti-war biopic
Shinya Tsukamoto’s “Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People?” dramatizes the experiences of a Black Vietnam War veteran to mixed effect.
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
Hsiao Kui-yu, 68, owner of Yuchan Candied Fruit, stands in front of photographs of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed at the shop, which Huang frequently visits during trips to Taiwan, in Taipei on Tuesday.
G7 diplomats speak out on Taiwan as China ramps up military drills
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi attends a working lunch focused on international crises and challenges during the Group of Seven foreign ministers' summit at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris on Monday.
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‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
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Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
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Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.
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