The ICC previously evaded the issue of North Korean abductions, saying these happened before Japan's membership. These abductions, however, are ongoing crimes.
Japanese judge Tomoko Akane takes on the presidency as the ICC faces mounting calls to help ensure accountability in war-torn lands such as Ukraine and Gaza.
Leila de Lima, as human rights commissioner, justice secretary, and senator probed into extrajudicial killings carried out by Duterte's alleged "death squad."
China and Russia cannot be trusted as they wantonly disregard international law and human rights and collude to oppose the existing international order.
China's Belt and Road project has created enormous debt at home while funding poorly used infrastructure projects in countries that cannot repay their loans.
ICC judges only issue arrest warrants after a long process in which multiple experts affirm that, in each case, it reflects the law, evidence, and justice.
In the wake of Kishida's visit to Ukraine, the government should promptly revise the National Security Guidelines and provide lethal weapons to Ukraine.
Recent meetings of Chinese President Xi Jinping with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow are an outright condonation of Russia's unprovoked aggression.
ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan commented on war crimes in which at least several hundred children were taken from Ukraine and forcibly made Russian citizens.
Russia’s massacring of Ukrainian citizens, shelling nuclear facilities, and bombing evacuation centers and residential areas, are nothing less than war crimes.
Who directed them and how they were carried out must be revealed, and all those involved must be held accountable.
“We hope that International Criminal Court one day will call this genocide. They are killing people because they are Ukrainians.” Sergiy Korsunsky, Ukraine Ambassador to Japan.