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WAR CRIMES

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.
State Minister for Foreign Affairs Ayano Kunimitsu (fifth from the right), receives a proposal document from Gen Nakatani, co-chair of a cross-party group of lawmakers (fourth from the right), and others, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday.
JAPAN
Sep 15, 2026
Lawmakers urge Takaichi to support ICC in her U.N. address
The lawmakers also asked the government to directly request to Washington that it withdraw sanctions on ICC President Tomoko Akane.
A locomotive of a passenger train burns following a Russian drone strike in Kharkiv region, Ukraine, on Sept. 9.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 15, 2026
Russian attacks on Ukraine railways escalating every week
Ukrainian Railways CEO Oleksandr Pertsovsky said Russia has started hitting parts of the network in the west — far from the front line.
Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli explosion in the southern Lebanese town of Al-Mansouri on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 8, 2026
Lebanon says Israel conducted wave of deadly strikes
A total of 13 people, including women and children, were killed, according to the Lebanese health ministry.
Two Japanese climbers die on remote Himalayan peak in Nepal
Rescuers have recovered the bodies of two Japanese climbers missing for over a week on a remote Himalayan mountain.
Aging Japanese village turns to Peru in search of new residents
Guests from Peru's Belen district interact with a baby in Nanmoku village in Gunma Prefecture.
Budget-friendly restaurant chain Saizeriya succumbs to rising costs
A Tokyo branch of Saizeriya, a chain of family-style Italian restaurants
U.S. has for years asked Musk to alter Starlink service in Ukraine and Middle East, sources say
A Ukrainian soldier sets up a Starlink satellite internet system near the frontline in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Oct. 16
U.S. military bans Chinese-made BYD cars from key air base in Okinawa
An F-22 Raptor lands at Kadena Air Base in Kadena, Okinawa Prefecture on Oct. 9. The base is a crucial hub for U.S. military operations in the region.
A dramatic bear hunt in a midsize Japanese city could be a harbinger of what is to come
Zookeeper Tetsuo Iso at the site of frantic search for a wild bear in Utsunomiya on June 9. Iso, 65, was asked by the prefectural government to help capture the bear and it was his shot with a tranquilizer gun that put an end to the saga.
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Tourists enjoy themselves while crossing the famous Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo on Oct. 12.
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Motorists drive through a road covered with smog from wildfires nearby in Ogan Ilir in Indonesia's South Sumatra province on Sept. 25.
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Ryan Roddy (second from left back) is pictured with the Ireland sumo team at this month's World Sumo Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan.
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