Japan is to freeze voluntary funding for a United Nations’ women’s rights panel over its recommendation that Japan’s male-only imperial succession rule should be revised from gender-equality perspecti

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.

The Japanese government has responded to a United Nations committee's recommendation to revise a law that limits imperial succession to male offspring in the male line.

Japan has hit back at a U.N. panel over its recommendation to revise the Imperial House Law by denying it access to the country's voluntary contributions to the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Japan has decided to freeze voluntary funding to a United Nations women's rights panel following a call to end the country's male-only imperial succession rule. The government informed CEDAW of its decision to exclude it from funding and plans to suspend committee member visits to Japan.

Tokyo to ensure no funding goes to Committee on Elimination of Discrimination against Women, says foreign ministry - Anadolu Ajansı

The Japanese government is considering not attending the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons as an observer. Government sources said Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru is instead thinking about dispatching a ruling lawmaker to the event, scheduled to take place at the UN headquarters in New York in March.

A new U.N. standard inspired by Japan's volunteer probation officer system is being developed, government sources said Sunday, reflec

NHK has learned that Japan's government and ruling coalition are considering sending Diet members to a UN nuclear weapons ban treaty conference without observer status.

Japan is set to supply Bangladesh with five patrol vessels to bolster coastal patrolling and is ready to finalize

Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui on Friday urged Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba to decide on Japan's participation as an observer at a me

People in Hiroshima expressed disappointment that the Japanese government is considering not attending an upcoming