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KOREA

Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 8, 2021
Internet giants take fire in South Korean echo of China crackdown
Naver, which runs the messaging platform Line as well as a host of apps, slid 8% Wednesday, its biggest intraday loss in over a year.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 7, 2021
South Korea joins elite club with test of sub-launched ballistic missile
South Korea joined an exclusive group last week, becoming only the eighth country — and sole non-nuclear nation — to successfully test-fire a submarine-launched ballistic missile.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 7, 2021
Chinese social media site suspends K-pop fan accounts
Beijing is concerned that the quest for online attention and celebrity adulation is poisoning the minds of the country's youth.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 7, 2021
North Korea elevates key player in country's missile program to ruling party's powerful presidium
In recent years Pak Jong Chon was promoted to a full four-star army general, led the military as chief of the general staff of the army, and made prominent appearances alongside Kim Jong Un.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 2, 2021
South Korea says it is developing more powerful missiles to deter North Korea
In its defense blueprint, the Defense Ministry said it would develop new missiles 'with significantly enhanced destructive power.'
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 1, 2021
Japan should develop strike capabilities to augment its defense
Placing an enemy's military assets at risk increases the price of any attack on Japan, thereby enhancing deterrence while degrading an opponent's attempts at coercion.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 31, 2021
Don’t let politicians off the hook: Their choices determine Japan-South Korea relations
Many like to blame structural factors for the troubled ROK-Japan relationship. The focus should be on those who weaponize foreign policy to serve domestic political interests.
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Aug 30, 2021
North Korea appears to restart nuclear reactor, presenting fresh challenge to Biden
The restart of the plutonium-producing reactor at the Yongbyon nuclear site has been described as 'deeply troubling' by the U.N. atomic agency.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 25, 2021
South Korea's youth debt binge shows no sign of slowing as rate hike looms
A debt binge by young Koreans concerns the country's central bank, which may soon deliver its first interest rate rise in three years.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 24, 2021
U.S. scraps plan to use Japanese bases for Afghan refugees, sources say
The planned move would have also involved bases in South Korea, an idea the government in Seoul responded positively to.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 24, 2021
Afghanistan is not Japan, South Korea or Taiwan
The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan should not be construed with its commitments to Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. The U.S. Afghan presence was pressed upon it by the 9/11 attacks.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 21, 2021
South Koreans now dislike China more than they dislike Japan
More than 58% of the 1,000 respondents called China 'close to evil,” while only 4.5% said that it was 'close to good.”
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 20, 2021
South Korea's Moon dismisses link with activists charged with spying for North
Under usual procedures in South Korea, authorities have not identified the activists nor has the identity of their lawyers been disclosed.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 18, 2021
SoftBank-backed Karrot becomes $2.7 billion South Korean unicorn
Asia's fourth-largest economy is breaking away from family-controlled conglomerates and minting self-made billionaires faster than ever.
Social media helps fuel growing 'sex tourism' in Japan
People walk down a street in the red-light entertainment area of Kabukicho in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo on March 31.
Japan buys first South Korean rice in over two decades as prices surge
Bags of rice at a warehouse in Pyeongtaek, South Korea. Japan imported South Korean rice for the first time since 1999 this month amid soaring domestic prices for the staple grain.
Nvidia CEO lobbies Japan to generate more power to fuel AI
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang answers questions from reporters after his meeting with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo on Monday.
Nvidia CEO urges LDP to build up Japan’s AI infrastructure
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba receives a gift from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at the start of their meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Monday.
Yen on the march as Plaza Accord 2.0 debate grows
The yen strengthened dramatically this month — hitting ¥139.9 to the dollar on Tuesday — and could become a topic of conversation in trade talks between the United States and Japan.
Is Japan’s parliament ready to welcome more youth to its ranks?
Lower House lawmaker Kai Odake in his Tokyo office on Wednesday
The floor is art: Takuro Tamayama transforms mundanity
Takuro Tamayama’s sculpture “Models (Pair, 6 sets, 12 rings)” comes with a mathematical formation that scales it for different spaces.
Cases of epidural use in labor rise in Japan alongside concerns
Of the 721,000 childbirths reported in 2024 in Japan, 13.8% involved the use of an epidural, according to the Japan Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
Nothing sells like Shohei Ohtani, MLB’s marketing megastar
People walk past an advertisement featuring Los Angeles Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani outside Tokyo Dome on March 18.
Calling all Potterheads: ‘The Goblet of Fire’ comes to Tokyo
The Tokyo version of the globe-trotting exhibition features a Ministry of Magic set, which includes an imposing replica of the Magic Is Might monument representing magical fascism.

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