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JAPAN
Aug 22, 2013
Japanese trio from Unification Church set themselves on fire near Seoul
Two Japanese followers of the Unification Church were in critical condition Thursday and the fate of another was unknown after they apparently set themselves on fire at a church-run complex near Seoul, Yonhap News Agency reported, citing police, who quoted a witness as saying only one of them started...
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal / FOCUS
Aug 22, 2013
North Korean gulag survivors tell U.N. investigators of rights abuses
One by one they came, taking seats next to a United Nations flag and stating their names for the record. Some kept calm. Some wept. One, as he spoke, used his left hand to clamp his trembling right hand to the table.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Aug 19, 2013
Officials search for fortune of Chun Doo-hwan, South Korea's last dictator
South Korea's last dictator lives in an L-shaped mansion protected by 5-meter stone walls and a plainclothes security team. He almost never goes outside, his longtime lawyer says, given the scrutiny he would face. Highlighting the extent of change in the nation he once ruled, Chun Doo-hwan is whiling...
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 18, 2013
Steel maker to pay if Korean ruling upheld
Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal will comply if South Korea's top court upholds a compensation ruling for four Koreans forced to work for its predecessors during the war.
EDITORIALS
Aug 16, 2013
Repairing Tokyo-Seoul ties
One year since South Korea's president set foot on the disputed Takeshima Islands in the Sea of Japan, the chilly Seoul-Tokyo relationship shows no signs of improving.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 7, 2013
U.S. worried by aggressive military posture
The United States has expressed concern about Japan's desire to acquire the ability to attack enemy bases in an overhaul of defense policies pursued by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a government source said in Tokyo.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 4, 2013
Korean fishing boat skipper arrested
The Japan Coast Guard has arrested the captain of a South Korean fishing boat that ignored an order to stop for inspection in Japan's exclusive economic zone, the coast guard said Sunday.
EDITORIALS
Aug 2, 2013
Defense plan would raise tensions
An interim outline of Japan's new defense policy points suspiciously toward deviations from the country's postwar defense-only posture that has won it friends.
JAPAN
Jul 31, 2013
Japanese university professor born in, critical of, South Korea says Seoul barred her entry
A Japanese university professor of South Korean descent claimed Wednesday in Tokyo that Seoul denied her entry to the country last Saturday at Incheon airport.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 30, 2013
South Korea court orders Mitsubishi Heavy to compensate for forced labor
The Busan High Court orders Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to pay 80 million won (about ¥7 million) to the families of five deceased Koreans who were forced to work for the company during Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 29, 2013
Political stunt in Korea game angers Japan
Japan has lodged a protest with the East Asian Football Federation demanding an investigation into a politically charged banner that was displayed at the East Asian Cup finale against South Korea on Sunday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 29, 2013
South Korean's 20-year search for dad leads to Kyushu mine
A South Korean man's 20-year mission to trace the steps of his long-lost father recently brought him to the site of an old coal mine in Fukuoka Prefecture.
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 28, 2013
Top Abe operative says Japan-China summit in works
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's close campaign adviser, Isao Iijima, said Sunday that he believes Japan and China might hold summit talks soon.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 28, 2013
Obama: Korean War vets 'deserve better'
President Barack Obama praised veterans of the Korean War at a ceremony Saturday marking the anniversary of the armistice, using their return to an apathetic America decades ago as a promise to better care for the generation that is returning from distant battlefields today.
Japan Times
SOCCER
Jul 27, 2013
South Korea stuns Japan; North Korea grabs Women's East Asian Cup title
South Korea shocked reigning Women's World Cup champion Japan, winning 2-1 in the last East Asian Cup women's match on Saturday and helping neighbor North Korea claim its first title at the regional event.
Japan Times
SOCCER
Jul 25, 2013
Japan, North Korea settle for draw in Women's East Asian Cup
Defending champion Japan had to make do with a share of the points as it was held to a 0-0 draw against North Korea in its second game of the women's competition at the East Asian Cup on Thursday.
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 25, 2013
California sex slave monument draws fire
The government has expressed its displeasure to U.S. officials over a plan to unveil in California next week a monument dedicated to Korean "comfort women" forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during the war, according to diplomatic sources.
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Jul 22, 2013
Pyongyang's ties to Havana deep, ship bust shows
When law enforcement agents boarded a rusty, aging North Korean freighter making a rare journey down the Panama Canal last week, they had been tipped off that they would find narcotics, Panamanian officials said.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Jul 20, 2013
Theaters of war and peace in Kumamoto
The pamphlet tells me this is a "castle" — but the structure in front of me defies that description. Granted, my frame of reference is greatly informed by the impressive edifices of Kumamoto, Himeji and Matsumoto that date back to the gory Sengoku (Warring States) Period spanning some 150 years from...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 18, 2013
Kishida, Kim try to patch up ties
Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida met with Kim Kyou-hyun, South Korea's first vice minister of foreign affairs, on Thursday as the two countries struggle to overcome territorial and historical disputes that are damaging bilateral ties.
As climate extremes intensify, Japan embraces ancient weather rituals
Traditional folk rituals like Mizudome-no-mai (dance to stop the rain) provide a sense of agency to a population that feels largely powerless in the face of the climate crisis.
Accident halts Tokaido Shinkansen services between Hamamatsu and Nagoya
Workers engage in restoration work on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line in Gamagori, Aichi Prefecture, where two maintenance trains had derailed on Monday.
Japan bakes as temperatures across the country rise above 35 C
A pedestrian walks past air conditioning units in Tokyo on Saturday.
Biden drops out of presidential race, endorsing Kamala Harris
U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris at the White House in Washington on July 4.
Tiny Japanese startup is bringing AI dating to the masses
Goki Kusunoki, CEO and co-founder of Samansa, with the company's Loverse app in Tokyo on May 10. The app allows interaction only with generative artificial intelligence.
Biden drops out of presidential race, endorsing Kamala Harris
U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris at the White House in Washington on July 4.
Why Japanese researchers are looking to submarine cables for faster tsunami warnings
Lamposts and other signs throughout Hirogawa, Wakayama Prefecture, display warnings, evacuation routes and measurements of height above sea level. The town has been hit by eight tsunami in its recorded history.
Akatsuki Japan believes it can 'surprise the world' in Paris
Mai Yamamoto drives to the basket during an Olympic tune-up game against New Zealand in Tokyo on July 4.
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.

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