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KOREA

Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 4, 2021
Kim Jong Un’s head bandage is added to list of health mysteries
Images of the North Korean leader at events in late July showed a bandage and later a dark greenish spot on the back of his head.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 4, 2021
What to watch on Day 12 of the Tokyo Olympics
An East Asian rivalry is set to be renewed on the diamond and skateboarding returns to the schedule a little over a week after Japan claimed the sport's first two gold medals.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 3, 2021
North Korea wants sanctions eased to restart talks with U.S., Seoul says
Pyongyang wants sanctions banning its metal exports and imports of refined fuel — as well as those on luxury goods — lifted before restarting talks, South Korean lawmakers said.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 2, 2021
North Korea threatens week-old detente over U.S.-led exercises
Kim Yo Jong, sister of the country's leader Kim Jong Un, said Sunday that the plan to hold annual allied exercises this month 'seriously undermines” efforts to restore ties with South Korea.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 1, 2021
What Tokyo and Seoul must do to meet their coal pledges
As Japan and South Korea work through policy implementation on ending funding for new coal projects, their decisions will reverberate beyond their borders.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 31, 2021
North Korea’s economy contracted the most in two decades in 2020
Gross domestic product fell to 31.4 trillion won ($27.4 billion), down from 33.8 trillion won in Kim Jong Un's first year at the helm.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 30, 2021
South Korea's An San brushes off hairstyle critics to win third gold
Top-seeded An held her nerve as both her final and semifinal went to shootoffs, downing Elena Osipova of the Russian Olympic Committee to take gold.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 28, 2021
North and South Korea in talks over summit and reopening liaison office
South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un have been exploring ways to improve strained ties by exchanging multiple letters since April.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Jul 27, 2021
In surprise move, two Koreas restore communications and agree to improve ties
The unexpected agreement comes more than a year after Pyongyang blew up ties — and an inter-Korean building that had been symbolic of the relationship.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 26, 2021
The world must not forget North Korea’s crimes against humanity
A British parliamentary report says there is clear evidence of continued killings, torture, sexual violence, slavery and religious persecution in North Korea.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 24, 2021
South Korean TV network apologizes over Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony broadcast
Broadcaster MBC used images of pizza to describe Italy, upheaval for Haiti and Chernobyl for Ukraine when athletes from those countries entered the stadium for the opening ceremony.
Japan Times
JAPAN / ANALYSIS
Jul 20, 2021
Moon’s Olympic absence points to protracted stalemate with Japan
Tokyo had been lukewarm on a visit, as it did not expect the South Korean president to propose solutions to festering grievances over historical, political and economic issues.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 20, 2021
South Korean leaders apologize for navy ship COVID-19 outbreak amid vaccine furor
Almost 250 of the 301-strong unvaccinated crew aboard the destroyer were infected, the country's biggest cluster of COVID-19 military cases.
Woman dies after train collides with car in Tochigi
A Moka Railway train car
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
Tokyo police care for lost umbrellas, keys and flying squirrels
An employee at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Lost and Found Center in the Iidabashi area of central Tokyo bags, tags and organizes thousands of items.
Japan to aid introduction of multilingual ride-hailing apps
A Nihon Kotsu Co. taxi departs one of the company's service offices in Tokyo.
Seven & I founding family sounded out KKR and others about buyout: report
A 7-Eleven convenience store in Tokyo
Tokyo’s newest three-star chef wants ‘harmony across every detail’
British-born Daniel Calvert earned his third Michelin star last month — a stunning achievement considering his restaurant, Sezanne, has only been open for just over three years.
133-year-old Kyushu railway station remains to be partially preserved
The remains of the original Moji Station in Kitakyushu
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”

Podcast

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

Longform

Construction takes place on the Takanawa Gateway Convention Center in Tokyo, slated to open in 2025.
A boom for business tourism in Japan?
By Kathryn Wortley

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