Politics
Nobel Peace Prize to Navi Pillay, Not Trump or Okinawa's Governor
The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the 2026 Peace Prize to South African jurist Navi Pillay. A day earlier Trump had insisted he deserved it, and a Ritsumeikan University professor had reportedly put forward Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki as a candidate — so when neither won, Japanese forums piled on the people who had been hoping. The focus was less on Pillay herself than on deflation toward the nomination campaigns and cold questions about whether a peace prize means anything.