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Rohingya refugees gather in front of the office of the U.N. refugee agency after being evicted from their homes, in Kuala Lumpur on Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 30, 2026
Malaysian PM says Myanmar agrees to take 5,000 Rohingya refugees from Malaysia
?There has recently been tension between the refugees and local Malaysian communities.
Rohingya refugees evicted from their homes are seen inside a truck as they are taken by Malaysian police, in front of the office of the U.N. refugee agency in Kuala Lumpur on Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 28, 2026
Malaysia detains over 100 Rohingya refugees seeking shelter at UNHCR
The refugees said they were driven out of their homes by local residents in the northern state of Penang and had traveled to Kuala Lumpur to seek assistance from the U.N. agency.
U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the 80th United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York in September 2025.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 21, 2026
Diplomatic efforts seek to avert Trump split with U.N. refugee agency, sources say
The U.S. deliberations over ?ending support for the U.N. refugee agency, created after World War II, follow a disagreement over the appointment of the deputy high commissioner.
A rescue team searches for survivors after a boat carrying Rohingya refugees sank in November 2025 near the Thailand-Malaysia border. Rohingya undertake perilous sea journeys every year in search of better living conditions.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 16, 2026
Over 500 feared dead in two suspected shipwrecks off Myanmar, U.N. says
Myanmar¡¯s Rohingya undertake perilous sea journeys every year in search of better living conditions, traveling aboard rickety boats often operated by trafficking networks.
Sudanese women gather for a hot meal in al-Rahmaniyah camp for displaced people, near the city of El-Obeid in the southern Kordofan region of Sudan on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 8, 2026
Misinformation inciting harm to refugees, UNHCR says
Artificial intelligence is exacerbating the spread of such misinformation and hate speech, according to the U.N. refugee agency.
Volker Turk, United Nations high commissioner for human rights, attends the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Sept. 8.
BUSINESS
Nov 12, 2025
Concentration of corporate power a ¡®huge¡¯ concern: U.N. rights chief
In an interview, Volker Turk pointed out how seven or eight big tech companies now boast more wealth than the entire economies of even industrialized nations.
A Malian refugee woman at a refugee camp in Bassikounou, Mauritania, on Nov. 4. UNHCR, the U.N. refugee agency, has said that within 15 years the places currently hosting nearly half the world's refugees could be facing extreme exposure to climate-related shocks.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Nov 11, 2025
Nearly half of all refugees to face extreme climate hazards by 2040, says UNHCR
By the middle of the century, the hottest 15 refugee camps in the world are also forecast to experience nearly 200 days of hazardous heat stress per year.
A family of displaced Sudanese at a displacement camp in Al Dabba, Sudan, on Sept. 6
WORLD / Politics
Sep 22, 2025
In Sudan, ¡®never again¡¯ has proved untrue, UNHCR chief says
After the bloody civil war in Sudan¡¯s Darfur region 20 years ago, the world said ¡°never again.¡± And yet it is happening again, U.N. refugees chief Filippo Grandi says.
Begum, a 35-year-old mother of seven children, in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on Aug. 18. Begum will marry off one of her daughters after a funding shortage shuttered thousands of schools in the refugee camps.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Aug 25, 2025
School closures push Rohingya refugee children into marriage and work
A funding crisis has led to the suspension of many Rohingya learning centers, leaving children to play in the mud or rain.
A displaced Sudanese mother and one of her children sit inside a camp shelter in Tawila, North Darfur, Sudan, on July 30.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 6, 2025
Funding cuts reducing Sudanese children to ¡®skin, bones¡¯: UNICEF
Children were being cut off from life-saving services due to funding cuts, while the scale of need is staggering, UNICEF said.
The United Nations' World Food Programme is expected to cut up to 30% of its staff.
WORLD
Jun 17, 2025
U.N. slashes global aid plan over ¡®deepest funding cuts ever¡¯
The United States ¡ª the world¡¯s top donor ¡ª has heavily slashed foreign aid since U.S. President Donald Trump returned to office in January.
Displaced people ride a an animal-drawn cart, following Rapid Support Forces (RSF) attacks on Zamzam displacement camp, in the town of Tawila, North Darfur, Sudan, on April 15.
WORLD / Society
Jun 12, 2025
U.N. says 122 million forcibly displaced worldwide ¡®untenably high¡¯
The U.N. refugee agency warned that how major conflicts worldwide played out would determine whether the figure would rise once again.
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Toshihiro Kitamura said measures against U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women "will show the government's position more clearly," in relation to the Imperial House Law.
JAPAN
Jan 30, 2025
Japan hits back at U.N. panel over imperial law review recommendation
The law allows only male descendants from the paternal line of the imperial family to become emperor.
Andrew Harper, climate advisor for the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), looks on during a visit to a neighborhood partially destroyed by the floods that hit Porto Alegre, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, on June 23.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Nov 12, 2024
Climate crisis worsening ¡®hellish¡¯ conditions for displaced people, U.N. reports
Weather-related causes have displaced approximately 60,000 people per day over the past decade, data shows, adding to those uprooted by other disasters.
Rohingya refugee children look on from their shelter at a refugee camp, in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on Sept. 28.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 15, 2024
Stateless speak up as world misses its #Ibelong deadline
They are often deprived of the most basic rights, exposing them to exploitation, destitution and detention.
Filippo Grandi, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), at the United Nations European headquarters in Geneva on Feb. 7
WORLD / Society
Jun 13, 2024
U.N. agency says record 117 million people forcibly displaced in 2023
The United Nations refugee agency on Thursday said the number of people forcibly displaced stood at a record 117.3 million as of the end of last year, warning that this figure could rise further without major global political changes.
Nigeriens gather in a street to protest against the U.S. military presence in Niamey, Niger, on April 13.
WORLD / Politics
May 30, 2024
¡®Act now¡¯ or Sahel crisis will be ¡®problem for the world¡¯: UNHCR
Military regimes in Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali have pushed out troops from France, the former colonial ruler, and are increasingly turning to Russia for support.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 15, 2023
Global level of forced displacement climbs to record 110 million, U.N. says
The increase of around 19 million people by the end of last year is the biggest annual jump on record, the UNHCR has said.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 24, 2020
Ghosn¡¯s repeated arrests ¡®extrajudicial abuse,¡¯ says U.N. panel
While Ghosn is unlikely to ever face trial or detention in Japan again, the report could be relevant for several ongoing proceedings related to the former auto executive.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / Food of my Former Homeland
Mar 7, 2020
Angkor Wat: A Cambodian take on ¡®Japanese professionalism¡¯
A gigantic elephant statue guards the entrance to Angkor Wat, a Cambodian restaurant hidden near Tokyo¡¯s Yoyogi Station.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
New ¡®Katsu Curry Index¡¯ aims to show how weak the yen really is
A CoCo Ichibanya curry house in Tokyo.
Mexican man arrested over attempt to smuggle some 200 lizards into Japan
Mexican alligator lizards seized by Tokyo Customs from a Mexican man who attempted to smuggle them into Japan on Saturday through Haneda Airport
Gut bacteria may be behind many of Â鶹´«Ã½ colorectal cancer cases
A Japanese research team found that a toxin produced by certain E. coli strains, colibactin, caused genetic mutations in nearly half of colorectal cancer cases studied
She is Russia¡¯s richest woman. Her business empire is going up in flames.
Tatyana Kim, the head and co-founder of Wildberries, speaks about Ukrainian drone attacks on the company's warehouses in the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, at an unidentified location, in this still image from a handout video released on July 31.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
Ikarigata closer to emulating older brother Fujinokawa than many think
The future Fujinokawa (third from left) and Ikarigata (right) compete against each other at ages 5 and 3, respectively.
Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
As Â鶹´«Ã½ concrete jungles sizzle, urban forestry offers an all-natural fix
People and birds find relief from the sun in Tokyo's Nakano Ward earlier this month. While experts agree that urban greening is crucial to mitigating the impact of climate change, trees are becoming even more scarce in Japanese cities.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

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Disaster relief workers Taichi Kato (left) and Seiji Yoshimura enter the collapsed living quarters at Kyuganji temple in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture.
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