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JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Dec 5, 2015
Germans torpedo Yasaka Maru; Men spending more on booze; Japan, ROK restore ties; South Korea to allow singing in Japanese
100 YEARS AGOFriday, Dec. 24, 1915
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 5, 2015
U.N. Security Council to meet on human rights in North Korea
The United Nations Security Council will meet in the coming week on human rights in North Korea, which has been accused by a U.N. inquiry of abuses comparable to Nazi-era atrocities, the United States said on Friday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 4, 2015
Man on video likely visited Yasukuni Shrine before suspected bombing
A South Korean man caught on surveillance camera footage around the time of a suspected bombing at a public restroom at war-linked Yasukuni Shrine on Nov. 23 is likely to have gone to the Tokyo shrine on the preceding day, investigative sources said Friday.
JAPAN
Dec 3, 2015
Man linked to Yasukuni restroom blast believed to have returned to South Korea
A man caught on camera after an explosion outside Yasukuni Shrine is South Korean and has returned to his country, according to sources.
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 2, 2015
South Korean professor slams indictment for 'comfort women' book that questions Seoul's line
A South Korean academic has lashed out at her indictment by prosecutors last week over a book published in 2013 that they say defames Korean women and girls forced into sexual slavery.
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COMMENTARY / World
Dec 1, 2015
Thank Kim Young-sam for preserving the peace
The greatest legacy of the late South Korean President Kim Young-sam was preserving the peace when the dogs of war were almost unleashed once again on the Korean Peninsula.
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JAPAN
Dec 1, 2015
From Paris to Seoul, death of manga artist Mizuki is mourned
Manga artist Shigeru Mizuki's global following has been making itself felt since his death Monday.
LIFE / Language / COMMUNICATION CUES
Nov 30, 2015
North Korea to offer flights over capital
North Korea will offer helicopter sightseeing tours of its capital, Pyongyang, tourist agencies have confirmed.
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WORLD
Nov 29, 2015
South Korea screens refugees with lie detectors and solitary confinement
South Korea has spent decades screening refugees from a hostile neighbor but some enemy agents manage to get through, underlining the challenges Western nations face in dealing with a far larger influx of people escaping the war in Syria.
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COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Nov 28, 2015
Asia mostly backsliding on democratic values
In Japan, lawyers are fortunately not arrested by the state for doing their job, as they are in China. Nor are academics faced with indictment for challenging mainstream history narratives, as in South Korea.
JAPAN
Nov 27, 2015
South Korea, U.S., Japan to hold nuclear talks next week in Washington
South Korea, the United States and Japan will hold talks next week in Washington to discuss issues regarding North Korea's nuclear weapons development program, Yonhap News Agency reported Friday, citing a diplomatic source.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 27, 2015
South Korea trains young hackers, plays catch-up years after North's elite unit proved abilities
In a darkened "war room" dozens of South Korea's brightest college students are practicing hacking each other as part of a government program to train them to battle some of the world's best — the shadowy techno-soldiers of Kim Jong Un's regime.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 25, 2015
Japan to send lawmaker Nukaga for funeral of Kim Young-sam
Japan will send Fukushiro Nukaga, head of the Japan-South Korea parliamentarians' league, as its special representative to a state funeral for former South Korean President Kim Young-sam scheduled for Thursday, the Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.
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JAPAN / Politics
Nov 25, 2015
Tokyo expresses condolences to Seoul over death of Kim Young-sam
Japan expressed "heartfelt condolences" on Tuesday over the death Sunday of former South Korean President Kim Young-sam, saying he made significant contributions to the realization of democracy in his country.
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 24, 2015
U.N. chief Ban sees 'positive signs' from Pyongyang on North Korea visit
In his first public comments on a possible trip to North Korea, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he was discussing dates for his visit with the isolated state, but that no decision has been reached.
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BASEBALL
Nov 21, 2015
South Korea crushes U.S. to win Premier 12 title
South Korea didn't need any ninth-inning heroics in the Premier 12 final.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 20, 2015
South Korean prosecutors indict professor for defaming 'comfort women' in book
South Korean prosecutors have indicted a South Korean professor for writing a book in which she allegedly defamed Korean women forced into wartime brothels for the Japanese military.
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 20, 2015
'The game's afoot': North Korea proposes talks with South for next week
North Korea has proposed talks with South Korea to be held on Nov. 26 at the truce village on their militarized border, the North's official KCNA news agency said Friday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 20, 2015
U.N. committee adopts resolution denouncing North Korean rights violations
The U.N. General Assembly's committee on human rights voted by a large majority Thursday to pass a draft resolution denouncing severe human rights violations in North Korea.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 19, 2015
Could South Korea be turning Japanese?
South Korea's economy has grown by leaps and bounds, like Japan's once did, but now it risks falling into the same kind of malaise as well.

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