For nearly 700 years, samurai were Japan’s social elite, skilled not only in combat but also in politics and the courtly arts. To equip these warriors in accordance with their status required an ...

Democrats pushed back against Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency as it turns its attention to the Education ...

Three weeks in, the change the Trump administration has brought is a disruption of the federal government on an unprecedented ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency works to ensure that everybody has the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge, having fled violence, persecution or war at home. Since 1950, we have faced multiple ...

Tokyo: Japan said it would not fund a UN women's rights committee and suspended a member's visit over calls for the nation to change its male-only imperial succession rules. To advertise here ...

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In the months after World War II, the fledgling United Nations was searching for a 50 ... Cave told The Providence Journal after Germany and Japan had been defeated. “It was quite a job, and ...

TOKYO (AP) — Nissan is slashing production at its U.S. plants and offering buyouts to factory workers there as part of the Japanese automaker’s urgent efforts to return to profitability. The move is ...

Supported by a generous grant from the Government of Japan and aligned with Zambia’s Eighth National Development Plan (8NDP) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the project focuses on two ...

TOKYO (AP) — 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.

Japanese media are still failing to report sexual assault cases properly, a key figure in the country's nascent #MeToo movement told AFP in the wake of the scandal surrounding celebrity Masahiro ...