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Eugene Doyle: Trump celebrates Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour

March 22, 2026

The lone building left standing from the US nuclear bomb attack on 3 August 1945 that later became the Hiroshima Peace Memorial

Japan

Hiroshima 80 years on – why AUKUS is imperial madness and needs to be stopped

The tsunami waves, caused by a massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Russia, have now rolled on southeastward toward South America

Japan

Pacific avoids major damage after powerful quake off Russia

The Manhattan Project for a Nuclear-Free World . . . a call at the UN for global awareness, not only about atomic bomb victims, but also of the Fukushima wastewater release

Japan

Activists call for Pacific nuclear justice, global unity and victim support

US Marines run past the Camp Blaz

Japan

US on target in Guam with first Marine redeployment and missile test

US Vice-President Kamala Harris and former US President Donald Trump

Japan

How the US election may affect Pacific Island nations

November 4, 2024

Honouring Hisoshima Day and the International Day for the World's Indigenous Peoples this month

Japan

Brown’s ‘backflip’ over Japanese nuclear wastewater dump poses challenge for Forum

August 16, 2024

A display of Nagasaki photographs past and present

Japan

Advocate slams NZ snub of Nagasaki peace tribute as ‘outrageous’

August 9, 2024

New Zealand is about to sacrifice what it cannot afford to lose for something it doesn’t need

Japan

Eugene Doyle: It’s bigger than NATO and it’s heading our way

July 24, 2024

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown

Japan

PIF hopes to send delegation to New Caledonia, says Forum chair

July 20, 2024

NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters

Japan

NZ’s Winston Peters calls for ‘more diplomacy, engagement, compromise’ in New...

July 19, 2024

Japan

PM Luxon talks doubling RSE in PNG – plane breakdown almost...

June 17, 2024

NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon

Japan

NZ’s Luxon briefly stopping over to see Marape in Port Moresby

June 16, 2024

French Polynesia has just played host to a 15-nation 'Marara' military exercise

Japan

French Polynesia hosts ‘Marara’ military exercise for Asia-Pacific

June 14, 2024

French Pacific Regiment marine

Japan

Macron defends Indo-Pacific stance – now ‘consolidated’ in Oceania

January 28, 2024

French Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu

Japan

France to host Pacific defence ministers in New Caledonia ‘hub’ meeting

October 3, 2023

Retired academic Professor Vijay Naidu and Fonu Emberson-Bain -- wearing the Fiji Anti-Nuclear Group (FANG) tee-shirt

Japan

Rabuka’s nuclear wastewater discharge stance splits Fiji coalition opinion

August 28, 2023

Protesters against the Fukushima wastewater dump in Aiuckland yesterday

Japan

‘The ocean is suffering’ – protesters fume over NZ silence on...

August 26, 2023

A Japanese critic of the Fukushima wastewater discharge

Japan

‘This is a big step’ – Japan releases nuclear wastewater into...

August 24, 2023

A Pacific protester against the Fukushima nuclear wastewater discharge plan

Japan

Countdown starts as Japan poised to release first batch of treated...

August 23, 2023

A Japanese Greenpeace protest against the planned Fukushima treated nuclear wastewater discharge

Japan

NZ women’s peace group protests over imminent Fukushima nuclear wastewater release

August 22, 2023

Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant

Japan

Rabuka, PIF ‘undermine credibility’ of Pacific experts over Japan’s nuclear waste...

August 12, 2023

Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant

Japan

Japan to release treated Fukushima nuclear wastewater in weeks

August 8, 2023

Fukushima Daichi nuclear power station

Japan

Anti-nuclear group condemns Fiji PM Rabuka’s Fukushima wastewater stance

August 5, 2023

Oppenheimer . . . a wait-and-see approach from the Japanese film industry

Japan

Yes, Oppenheimer isn’t opening in Japan this week – but the...

July 20, 2023

IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi met with New Zealand's Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta

Japan

UN nuclear watchdog boss defends position on Japan’s wastewater dump

July 11, 2023

Husband and wife duo Lauren and Matt Barus perform under the stage name Terrible Sons

Japan

First-ever recipients of ‘outstanding’ Asian music funding unveiled

July 3, 2023

CLIMATE AND COVID

Pacific verdict on COP29

Climate

COP29: Pacific climate advocates decry outcome as ‘a catastrophic failure’

A protester at COP29 calls on wealthy nations to "pay up"

Asia Report

COP29: Carbon credit trading scheme criticised as ‘get out of jail...

In the Eye of the Storm

Analysis

Strings attached: The reality behind NZ’s climate aid in the Pacific

Pacific Climate Warriors

Analysis

How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic

BEARING WITNESS

Author and journalist Dr David Robie speaking at the launch of the third edition of the Rainbow Warrior book Eyes of Fire

Analysis

Nuclear – now climate change: New book on how great powers...

Australia, the country, as a political entity, its government, its major institutions, its official voice to the world, was quiet over the Gaza genocide

Analysis

Ignoring genocide – the bill for Australia’s silence has arrived

"I am worried about the implications of any law that bans a chant by exiled people"

Analysis

Saige England: Bearing witness – we are seeing a rise of...

West Papua's Morning Star flag of independence

Asia Report

27 years after Biak massacre in West Papua, human rights crisis...

Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior

Bearing Witness

Eyewitness account of Rainbow Warrior voyage – new Eyes of Fire...

Sawana Village on Fiji's Vanua Balavu island was partly destroyed by Cyclone Winston in 2016

APJS newsfile

Not up for debate: Fijian journalists in the climate crisis response

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APJS NEWSFILE

Fijian iTaukei leaders discuss contemporary issues, such as women's representation in Fijian society

APJS newsfile

Fijian journalists use talanoa and tradition to find their voice

Fijian women journalists face abuse, harassment and spam online.

APJS newsfile

Online abusers ‘shaming, silencing’ Fiji women journalists, say researchers

Islands Business general manager Samantha Magick (right)

APJS newsfile

Islands Business: ‘Big picture’ style journalism is the future for...

QUT student journalist Maxim Bock with Fiji TV's director of news, current affairs and sports Felix Chaudhary (right)

APJS newsfile

Surviving harassment in journalism – how Felix Chaudhary kept on top

POPULAR POSTS

Fiji has climbed from 40th place in 2025 in the latest RSF World Press Freedom Index

Democracy

Political reforms drive Fiji’s big press freedom gains, says RSF

Tongan police are investigating the threat against a Kele'a journalist incident on April 23

Crime

Tongan police investigate journalist threatened at gunpoint after gang-related report

Global Sumud Flotilla boats have been intercepted illegally by Israeli Defense Forces

Asia Report

NZer in flotilla intercepted by Israel has concussion and possible broken...

PSNA national spokesperson Rinad Tamimi

Asia Report

NZ govt must rebuke Israeli envoy over beating of citizens, says...

EDITOR'S PICKS

Brazilian humanitarian aid activist Thiago Ávila

Asia Report

UN commissioner condemns Israeli kidnapping, detention of Brazilian flotilla activist

Vanuatu Prime Minister Jotham Napat (right) and FLNKS president Christian Téin during a meeting in Port Vila

Business

New Caledonia suspends trade cooperation with Vanuatu in row over FLNKS...

PINA president Kalafi Moala

Asia Report

Fiji’s media win in World Press Freedom Index overshadowed by threats...

"I stand against genocide" placard at a Stop Wars protest in Auckland's Aotea Square last month

Analysis

Blame the NZ govt for ‘selective’ human rights morality, not activists

MOST COMMENTS

Australia

Still stealing the generations – the abduction of Indigenous Australian children...

Jacinda Ardern

Analysis

Gordon Campbell: Media collusion with National’s attack lines the real disgrace

Global

Deported Freedom Flotilla activist Mike Treen arrives back in NZ

Taiwan Day event in Suva

Asia Report

Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

GLOBAL REPORTAGE

Brazilian humanitarian aid activist Thiago Ávila

Asia Report

UN commissioner condemns Israeli kidnapping, detention of Brazilian flotilla activist

Vanuatu Prime Minister Jotham Napat (right) and FLNKS president Christian Téin during a meeting in Port Vila

Business

New Caledonia suspends trade cooperation with Vanuatu in row over FLNKS...

Two foreign activists -- Brazilian Thiago Ávila and Spanish Palestinian Saif Abukeshek -- from a Gaza-bound flotilla who were kidnapped and taken to Israel for interrogation and appeared before an Israeli court on May 3 and again two days later

Analysis

Israel’s kidnapping of two important pro-Palestine global activists reaffirms persecution

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele

Democracy

Manele calls parliament for Thursday to face no confidence motion