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South Korea’s impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol arrives for his impeachment trial at the Constitutional Court in Seoul on Jan. 21.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 27, 2025
South Korean President Yoon's indictment: What happens next?
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's indictment on Sunday makes him the country's first sitting head of state to face a criminal trial.
North Korea has sent thousands of troops to reinforce the Russian military in Ukraine.
WORLD
Dec 24, 2024
Over 1,000 North Koreans killed or wounded fighting for Russia, Seoul says
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy later gave a far higher estimate, saying the total killed and wounded in the Kursk region has already exceeded 3,000.
Protesters outside the National Assembly call for the impeachment of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Dec 4, 2024
How the streets of Seoul responded to a martial law decree
South Koreans immediately took to the streets after President Yoon Suk Yeol shocked the nation with a late-night decree of martial law.
A South Korean engineer drives past a South Korean flag at the Hanwha Aerospace factory in Changwon on Thursday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 22, 2024
Inside the South Korean weapons factory that could supply Kyiv
Domestic policy bars Seoul from sending weapons into active conflict zones, but after reports of North Korea sending troops to help Russia, it might change course.
South Korean soldiers examine various objects including what appeared to be trash from a balloon believed to have been sent by North Korea, in Incheon, South Korea, on Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 2, 2024
North Korea sends 600 more trash-filled balloons over border
Seoul has warned of strong countermeasures, saying it runs counter to the armistice agreement that ended the 1950-53 Korean War hostilities.
Entrepreneur Lee Hee-tae at his office in Seoul. Lee had planned South Korea's largest sex festival in April, but the two-day event was banned by authorities following a backlash by local rights groups.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
May 30, 2024
Pervert or pioneer? The entrepreneur trying to get South Korea into porn
The South Korean adult content industry produces around 2,000 adult movies a year, compared with Tokyo's 2,000 a day $36.5-billion-dollar behemoth.
A voter casts their ballot at a polling station in Seoul early on Wednesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Apr 10, 2024
Opposition projected to retain majority in South Korean parliament
The Democratic Party and its satellites are forecast to win between 184 and 197 seats, up from 156 in the last parliament.
South Korea's main opposition Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung speaks during a news conference in Seoul on April 11.
WORLD
Jan 3, 2024
South Korean opposition leader 'could have been killed': party
Lee Jae-myung, who suffered a wound to his jugular vein, was first taken to a hospital in Busan, then flown to Seoul.
Japan's Prince Hisahito to hold first news conference on March 3
Prince Hisahito heads to greet the Emperor and Empress on the occasion of his 18th birthday in Tokyo on Sep. 6.
Special website created 30 years after Tokyo subway sarin attack
Ahead of the 30th anniversary of the 1995 sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system by Aum Shinrikyo, the Public Security Intelligence Agency launched a special website Friday.
LDP and opposition lock horns over Japan budget
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba in parliament on Friday
Japanese nationals returned from Myanmar as scam probe continues
Multinational victims of scam centers, who were allegedly trafficked into working in Myanmar and were sent to Thailand on Feb. 12 amid a mounting crackdown on scam centers operating along a porous border, queue to get food at a shelter in Tak province, Thailand, on Wednesday.
Over 80% of Japanese say death penalty system is 'unavoidable'
Former death row inmate Iwao Hakamata (left) and his sister, Hideko, attend a gathering of his supporters after his acquittal in a retrial over a 1966 murder case was finalized in October last year.
As Ukraine rift emerges, Kyiv's envoy says Japan must take on bigger global role
Ukrainian Ambassador to Japan Sergiy Korsunsky speaks during an interview at the Ukrainian Embassy in Tokyo on Monday.
Japan release of Shiori Ito's documentary in limbo
Shiori Ito, who won a civil suit over a rape case against a TV reporter, in 2018. Her former lawyers claim her documentary includes footage used without the consent of sources.
Abdul Hakim Sani Brown ready to sprint past Paris disappointment
Abdul Hakim Sani Brown (center) runs during a 100-meter heat at the Paris Olympics on Aug. 3, 2024.
What is the ceiling for sumo’s newest yokozuna?
Newly promoted grand champion Hoshoryu (center) performs a dedication ceremony at Meiji Shrine in Tokyo on Jan. 31.
‘Yasuko, Songs of Days Past’ puts overlooked star in the spotlight
“Yasuko, Songs of Days Past” centers on a real-life love triangle between poet Chuya Nakahara (Taisei Kido, left), actor Yasuko Hasegawa (Suzu Hirose, center) and literary critic Hideo Kobayashi (Masaki Okada).

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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Tokyo Koon stands at the forefront of tackling the so-called 2025 issue, also known as the “Magnetic Tape Alert.”
The race to save 20th-century history
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