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KOREA

COMMENTARY / World
Aug 7, 2015
Realizing rapprochements with rogue states
With a regime as volatile as North Korea's, patience is never a virtue. The U.S. should begin informal contact with the North to probe Kim Jong Un's intentions.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 7, 2015
Made in North Korea: goods store opens to brisk business in Seoul
A shop in South Korea's capital specializing in goods made in the North has run nearly $140,000 through its tills in just three months of business, helping dispel the notion that products from the impoverished state are shoddy and undesirable.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 6, 2015
Abe advisory panel cites wartime 'aggression' but fails to address recent revisionism
A key advisory panel to Shinzo Abe published its report Thursday on Japan's modern history and postwar reconciliation, strongly criticizing the wartime "aggression" against other Asian countries but touching little on recent controversies over what is widely regarded as the prime minister's revisionist...
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 6, 2015
Japan, North Korea foreign ministers meet in Kuala Lumpur
Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said Thursday he urged his North Korean counterpart Ri Su Yong to ensure Pyongyang abides by a 2014 bilateral accord and promptly compile a report on the outcome of an investigation into the fates of Japanese citizens abducted in the 1970s and 1980s.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Aug 6, 2015
Hibakusha of 'Korea's Hiroshima' still press for redress
The nuclear bomb detonated as a 16-year-old girl sat in a shanty town cradling her baby, waiting for her mother to return from selling candy.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / HOTLINE TO NAGATACHO
Aug 5, 2015
Abe, offer a WWII apology alluding to the shame the West should share
The prime minister should explain to the world that he is sorry for the implications of Japan's warmongering past but rather glad that Japan avoided the fate of its neighbors by treading the imperial path.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 4, 2015
Park urges Abe to uphold 1995 view in upcoming war statement: Okada
President Park Geun-hye says the war anniversary statement that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will issue this month should adhere to the 1995 statement that offered an apology and described Japanese action during World War II as 'aggression.'
JAPAN
Aug 4, 2015
Japan to hold first working-level defense meeting with South Korea in 30 months
Japan and South Korea will hold a working-level meeting of defense officials Wednesday in Seoul, the first in nearly 2½ years, Defense Ministry officials in Tokyo said.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 4, 2015
Grassroots capitalism an economic reality in North Korea
From the dark alleys of Pyongyang, the showpiece North Korean capital, tiny specks of torchlight shine carefully into the eyes of passersby, leading to bustling and illegal street markets where traders, usually women, call out "buy, buy!"
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 3, 2015
Park holds meeting with DPJ head Okada in S. Korea
South Korean President Park Geun-hye, who refuses to hold a summit with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, met Monday with visiting opposition leader Katsuya Okada.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 2, 2015
North Korea installing cover at launch site in bid to evade surveillance
Satellite imagery indicates that North Korea has completed upgrades to a rocket launchpad in the country's northwest and is proceeding with work to install a cover over it, diplomatic sources familiar with the developments said Saturday.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 1, 2015
Top diplomats from Japan, North Korea may hold abduction talks next week
Japan is making arrangements with North Korea for talks with the two nations' top diplomats on the sidelines of a regional security forum scheduled for Thursday in Malaysia, Japanese government sources said Friday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Jul 31, 2015
North Korea-held Canadian pastor appears before Pyongyang TV to 'confess'
The head pastor of one of Canada's largest congregations, who has been detained by North Korea since February, appeared before media in Pyongyang and admitted to allegations against him, a spokeswoman for his Toronto-area church said on Thursday.
COMMENTARY / Japan / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Jul 30, 2015
Colonial management was never a 'charity'
While Japan's rule over Taiwan and the Korean Peninsula may have brought some benefits, colonization is never altruistic.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 29, 2015
Lotte Group founder loses Japan CEO title amid succession scuffle
Lotte Group founder Shin Kyuk-ho is being ousted as chief executive of Lotte Holdings Co. in Japan in the latest succession scuffle between his two sons.
JAPAN
Jul 28, 2015
Group supporting visits to graves in North Korea to disband
A group that has been helping people visit the graves of their relatives in North Korea said it will disband after Pyongyang agreed to conduct a survey into the locations of grave sites.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Jul 23, 2015
The Korean struggle to keep their education system alive in Japan
Ri Dong Yol, a 74-year-old ethnic Korean living in Japan, remembers an autumn day more than six decades ago when dozens of policemen suddenly arrived in trucks in front of his school.
JAPAN
Jul 23, 2015
January-June visitors from abroad rise to record 9.14 million
A record 9.14 million foreigners are estimated to have visited Japan from January to June this year, a 46 percent increase from the same period in 2014, as the country continued to attract tourists from China, Taiwan and elsewhere, government data showed Wednesday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jul 21, 2015
Japan may request WTO panel in August over Seoul's fishery import ban
Japanese agriculture minister Yoshimasa Hayashi suggested Tuesday the government may request the World Trade Organization set up a dispute settlement panel as early as next month over South Korea's import restrictions on Japanese fishery products.
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 20, 2015
Mongolia venue of secret May talks with Pyongyang over abductions
Japan and North Korea held secret talks in mid-May in Ulan Bator over North Korea's abductions of Japanese nationals decades ago, a diplomatic source in Mongolia said Sunday.
Japanese gymnast Shoko Miyata leaves Olympic team over drinking and smoking
Shoko Miyata had been set to lead the Japanese women's gymnastics team at the Paris Games.
U.S.-Japan Patriot missile production plan hits Boeing component snag
Self-Defense Forces soldiers walk past a Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) missile unit in Tokyo in October 2017.
Nippon Steel hires Mike Pompeo to help clinch purchase of U.S. Steel
Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during the last day of the 2024 Republican National Convention on Thursday in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Secluded at beach house, Biden stews at allies’ pressure to drop out
U.S. President Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama attend a campaign fundraiser at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on June 15.
Japanese culture festival kicks off in London
Matthew Barry (right) tastes sake at the Hyper Japan Festival on Friday in London.
How to prevent and respond to heatstroke in Japan this summer
A passerby holding a parasol wipes her face as she walks on the street amid a heatstroke alert in Tokyo and other prefectures, in Tokyo on July 9.
‘Sniper from Oita’ sets her sights on Paris Olympics target
Misaki Nobata competes at the World University Games in 2023. A hero in her hometown of Oita, Nobata is one of three Japanese shooters who will compete at the upcoming Paris Olympics.
Households struggle as Japan’s inflation rises near U.S. levels
The Nishiki market in Kyoto. June’s inflation report shows extraordinary jumps in the prices of some items favored by households, including cabbage (27.6%), potatoes (28.5%) and tomatoes (15.6%).
As risk of heatstroke rises in Japan, so does that of COVID-19
People hold umbrellas while watching baseball to deal with the heat in the city of Shizuoka on July 7.
German, French and Spanish fighter aircraft arrive in Japan for joint drills
Two Air Self-Defense Force F-15s (right) escort two German Air Force Eurofighter jets and an A330MRTT aerial tanker on their arrival in Japan Friday. The ASDF is conducting training exercises with the German, French and Spanish air forces this weekend.

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