Overview
- The leaders, who met in Tokyo on Monday during Guterres' four-day visit, agreed to keep working together as global tensions rise.
- After the talks, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi called for changes to the U.N. Security Council and said Japan will keep supporting reform efforts.
- U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said changing the council is an "absolute priority" and praised Japan as a reliable partner in multilateral work.
- At events marking Japan's 70 years in the U.N., Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi called reform urgent and Guterres urged a world without nuclear weapons, invoking Japan's atomic-bomb history.
- Coverage cites how the veto power held by five permanent members has stalled responses to the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, sharpening calls for council reform.