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HUMAN RIGHTS

Chicago O'Hare International Airport on Nov. 26. Along with social media handles, the U.S. would require all travelers who must complete an Electronic System for Travel Authorization form to submit email addresses used over the last 10 years and names, birth dates, residences and the birthplaces of parents, siblings, children and spouses.
WORLD
Dec 12, 2025
U.S. travel group and foreign tourists leery of Trump plan to vet social media
The change, expected to take effect on Feb. 8, would require travelers to the U.S. from countries in the visa waiver program to submit social media data.
During a rally in Pennsylvania on Tuesday that was supposed to focus on economic policy, U.S. President Donald Trump repeated past comments on some countries whose citizens immigrate to the U.S.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 11, 2025
Trump targets nonwhite immigrants in renewed xenophobic rants
The U.S. president is openly ranting and reusing a phrase that had sparked an outcry during his first term.
Haneda Airport's international departure lobby in April 2023. Under U.S. President Donald Trump, travelers and immigrants have been scrutinized more aggressively.
JAPAN / Society
Dec 10, 2025
U.S. may require tourists to disclose social media history to customs
The U.S. is planning to require all foreign tourists to disclose five years of their social media history under a new proposal for enhanced border security.
Rei Watanabe Prosper (left) and Coralie Prosper attends a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday.
JAPAN
Dec 9, 2025
Same-sex international couple petitions for marriage recognition in Japan
The Japanese-French couple says Japan’s refusal to acknowledge their marriage is preventing them from starting a family in France.
A woman holds a sign in Arabic that reads "our martyrs are not numbers," during a news conference in Damascus, Syria, on Nov. 28.
WORLD
Dec 9, 2025
A year after Assad’s fall, families of missing detainees languish without answers
As Syria marks a year since Bashar Assad’s downfall, many people remain exhausted by the same burden that plagued them under his rule: the lack of closure.
Mame Mandiaye Niang, lawyer and Acting Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) during an interview at the ICC in The Hague, Netherlands, on Friday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Dec 6, 2025
‘U.S. sanctions equate us with drug traffickers,’ ICC deputy prosecutor says
Sanctions have a place in international relations, the prosecutor said, but attacking the ICC risks “de-legitimizing” the instrument.
A U.S. Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter launches from the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford while operating in the Caribbean Sea on Nov. 18.
EDITORIALS
Dec 5, 2025
A matter of state-sponsored ‘murder’ on the high seas
A fundamental concept of war is “hors de combat,” which translates as “out of combat,” and attacks on those who are disabled and removed from fighting are forbidden.
A member of the public waves Israel's national flag while watching an Israeli singer performing during the Eurovision Song Contest 2025, at the St. Jakobshalle arena in Basel, Switzerland on May 15.
WORLD
Dec 5, 2025
Eurovision hit by boycotts after Israel cleared to compete
Spain, Ireland and the Netherlands all announced they were boycotting Eurovision — the world’s largest live music competition — over the decision.
Campaigners working for the legalization of same-sex marriages in Japan walk toward the Supreme Court in Tokyo on Wednesday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 3, 2025
Same-sex marriage campaigners take fight to Japan’s top court
The court has been asked to consider the lives of people who dreamed of marrying but were “consistently excluded from the legal marriage system.”
Sebastian Lai (right) and Claire Lai (left), children of jailed Hong Kong publisher and democracy activist Jimmy Lai, in Washington on Tuesday
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Dec 3, 2025
Family voices new alarm for Hong Kong’s jailed Jimmy Lai
The pro-democracy media mogul, who turns 78 next Monday, has been in jail since late 2020 in solitary confinement, his children said.
A person pays their respects at a makeshift memorial for the victims of last week’s deadly fire at the Wang Fuk Court housing complex in Hong Kong.  
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 2, 2025
How an unfree press stoked the flames of Hong Kong’s deadly blaze
Many of the people who lived in the housing complex knew about problems in the renovation project that saw building towers wrapped in plastic netting and windows filled with foam.
China achieved manufacturing dominance thanks to its weaker protections for workers, communities and the environment. Now it’s exporting that model.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 30, 2025
China’s unfair labor model is going global
China’s low rights model is no longer a domestic labor issue but a systemic challenge to global labor standards, supply chain governance and fair market competition.
Plaintiffs and supporters hold up signs reading "unjust ruling" in Tokyo on Friday after the Tokyo High Court ruled Japan’s failure to recognize same-sex marriages is constitutional.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 28, 2025
Same-sex marriage ban constitutional, says Tokyo High Court
The ruling departs from those of five other high court rulings made previously that had deemed Japan’s failure to recognize such unions as unconstitutional.
Israeli soldiers detain two Palestinians during an operation in Jenin in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Thursday.
WORLD
Nov 28, 2025
Israeli forces kill two Palestinians in West Bank who appeared to be surrendering
The Jenin raid marks the latest assault in a months-long Israeli campaign across northern West Bank cities.
The history of internment camps for Japanese Americans in the U.S. during World War II has been the focus of several of George Takei's projects, including the Broadway show "Allegiance" and his memoir titled “They Called Us Enemy.”
CULTURE / Books
Nov 26, 2025
George Takei brings children’s book on wartime internment to Japan
The “Star Trek” actor has written about his experience in the internment camps in the U.S. during World War II.
A statue of former Indonesian President Suharto at a museum dedicated to him in the city of Yogyakarta. Authoritarian nostalgia is rising across Southeast Asia as leaders and societies whitewash past dictatorships. REUTERS
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 26, 2025
How amnesia is turning Asia’s tyrants into heroes
Experts warn that forgetting the realities of autocratic rule threatens democratic institutions, transparency and long-term stability.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, in a statement that justified the move, said Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem has concluded that the Temporary Protected Status designation for Myanmar is no longer needed.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 25, 2025
U.S. ends temporary status for Myanmar nationals, cites upcoming polls as ‘progress’
The move sparks concern for individuals who may be forced to return to Myanmar, which has been in political turmoil since the military seized power in a 2021 coup.
Kateryna Golizdra holds her Ukrainian passport for a photograph outside her home in Margate, Florida, on Nov. 17.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Nov 23, 2025
Some 200,000 Ukrainians in U.S. in legal limbo under Trump immigration crackdown
Worried about arrests and deportation, some are leaving for Canada, Europe and elsewhere, as returning to Ukraine was not an option.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia's crown prince, during the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum at the Kennedy Center in Washington on Wednesday
WORLD / Politics
Nov 20, 2025
Behind Trump defense of Saudi crown prince, a deeper U.S. shift on human rights
Trump’s remarks threw into stark relief just how far his administration has shifted away from the traditional U.S. support for human rights globally.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman walks beside U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson ahead of a meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 20, 2025
Saudi crown prince hosted at friendlier U.S. Congress
The second day meeting aimed to tout stronger-than-ever economic and security ties while brushing off scrutiny of the prince’s human rights record.
China’s demand for Soviet-style apartments shows limits to revival
Apartments built during a Soviet Union-inspired construction drive in the 1970s and 1980s tend to suffer from poor insulation and outdated plumbing, but they are seeing a revival in interest due to their attractive locations.
Japanese scientists identify neural mechanism that may explain why we dislike people
The aggressive mouse (left) used in the experiment and a mouse defending itself
Japanese payment processor’s collapse hits banks and restaurants
Zentoshin served around 200,000 shops, many of which rely on early payments to maintain cash flow, raising concerns over their financial stability following the disruption.
Over 70% of accommodations in Japan say they are understaffed amid tourism influx
The number of foreign visitors to Japan reached a high of 42.68 million in 2025.
Lenders seek $700 million after Japanese payments firm’s collapse
The financial failure of Osaka-based Zentoshin has left 63 creditors with claims totaling ¥115.16 billion, according to Tokyo Shoko Research.
Japan’s largest exhibition of women photographers rights a wrong in cultural history
Miwa Yanagi’s “Elevator Girl House” series skewers the superficiality of gender roles through staged images.
Over 70% of accommodations in Japan say they are understaffed amid tourism influx
The number of foreign visitors to Japan reached a high of 42.68 million in 2025.
‘Princess Mononoke’ comes alive in Super Kabuki staging
The “Princess Mononoke” adaptation was created under Shochiku’s Super Kabuki initiative, a modern form of kabuki with more technology in staging and open to pop culture collaborations.
The beating heart inside ‘Human Vapor’
Different forms of love and connection form the emotional backbone of Netflix’s “Human Vapor,” says actor Shun Oguri, who plays troubled detective Kenji Okamoto.
Japan bets on character IP to drive global growth
Born on social media platforms in 2022, Opanchu Usagi has become a major hit, especially among Generation Z.

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