The abduction issue concerns everyone. The same tragedy could strike Japan again if it remains a nation that allows the abductions to stay unsolved.
Moscow is issuing Russian passports to Ukrainians in occupied areas, then deporting them to Russia as “refugees," reminiscent of what the Soviet Union did to Japanese...
This 2nd prize-winning essay asks us to imagine the families of abductees, grieving the undead, knowing your loved one is alive and just across the sea,...
This 2nd prize-winning student essay from 2021 explains why the blue ribbon campaign is an effective way to get people to talk about the abduction of...
This 1st-prize winning student essay from 2021 points out that Japan is only one of 14 countries worldwide whose citizens were abducted by North Korea, and...
This 1st prize-winning student essay from 2020 expresses hope that the international community will understand the abductions by North Korea as a global human rights issue,...
The biggest challenge for the upcoming Quad meeting will be India’s reluctance to take a strong stance when it comes to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Russia’s massacring of Ukrainian citizens, shelling nuclear facilities, and bombing evacuation centers and residential areas, are nothing less than war crimes.
The US State Department’s “2021 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices” recognizes the problem and its depth — a first step towards resolving it.
PM Fumio Kishida and Senator Bill Hagerty— former US ambassador to Japan— talked about Russia's invasion of Ukraine and issues related to China and North Korea.
Putin felt free to be aggressive in Ukraine because of the West’s failure to firmly condemn his actions in Crimea and Georgia in 2014 and 2008,...
The Dalai Lama’s liaison for Japan and East Asia predicts that Russia’s Putin will fail in Ukraine just like China has failed to erase Tibet’s religion,...