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SOUTH KOREA JAPAN RELATIONS

Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 27, 2019
Senior U.S. official for Asia to push South Korea to keep intelligence pact with Japan
Senior U.S. State Department official David Stilwell said Washington encourages the South Korean side to return to the intelligence-sharing agreement because it benefits all sides.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 24, 2019
Breakthrough elusive as Abe meets South Korean prime minister amid strained bilateral ties
Abe told Lee that the two countries were important neighbors and it was vital they work together to address North Korea's nuclear program.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 22, 2019
South Korea's Prime Minister tweets congratulatory message before attending enthronement ceremony
South Korean Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon tweeted a congratulatory message Tuesday before attending Emperor Naruhito's enthronement ceremony, held before an audience of roughly 2,000 domestic and international guests.
JAPAN
Oct 19, 2019
'Comfort women' statue to be erected near Washington next week
A groundbreaking ceremony for a statue of a girl symbolizing so-called comfort women was held in a suburb of Washington on Thursday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 18, 2019
South Korea PM may deliver letter from Moon to Abe on visit for Japan enthronement ceremony
In media interviews published Friday, South Korean Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon said he intends to deliver a personal letter from President Moon Jae-in to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe next week in Tokyo, hoping to improve a bilateral relationship strained by historical issues and trade disputes in recent...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 18, 2019
Nearly 100 Japan lawmakers, including another minister, visit Tokyo's war-linked Yasukuni
Internal affairs minister Sanae Takaichi, as well as a cross-party group of about 100 lawmakers, paid homage Friday at war-linked Yasukuni Shrine during its autumn festival, a day after a visit from a different Cabinet minister drew criticism from China and South Korea.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 17, 2019
Number of South Korean visitors to Japan plunges nearly 60% in September
The number of South Korean visitors to Japan plunged nearly 60 percent in September from a year earlier, following a 48.0 percent tumble in August, amid frayed ties over wartime history and trade policy, government data has shown.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 17, 2019
Seiichi Eto becomes first Japan minister to visit Tokyo's war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in over two years
The last Cabinet minister to visit was Sanae Takaichi in April 2017.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 13, 2019
South Korean PM to attend emperor's enthronement ceremony in highest-level visit to Japan since export curbs
Despite the current frosty relations, South Korean Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon plans to visit Japan next week to attend Emperor Naruhito's enthronement ceremony.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 10, 2019
Tokyo, Seoul and the weaponization of history
In July, Japan tightened its control of exports of certain materials for semiconductor production to South Korea. On Aug. 28, the government took further action and removed South Korea from its whitelist of nations granted preferential trade procedure.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 10, 2019
South Korea and Japan to hold talks over trade dispute on Friday
Trade officials from South Korea and Japan will hold bilateral consultations in Geneva on Friday, following a complaint filed by Seoul with the World Trade Organization last month over Tokyo's tightening of export controls, trade ministries of the two countries said Thursday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 9, 2019
Visits to Tokyo's war-linked Yasukuni Shrine by ministers may resume after more than two years
Since conservatives close to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe joined his Cabinet in a reshuffle last month, there has been speculation that visits to war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo by Cabinet ministers may resume after a halt of 2½ years.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 9, 2019
Japanese manufacturers use decades of experience to dominate key chemical market for cutting-edge chips
Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co., JSR Corp. and Shin-Etsu Chemical Co.: Three seemingly inconspicuous companies suddenly came into the spotlight in early July when Japan announced it would slap tightened export controls to South Korea on three key chemicals — photoresists, fluorinated polyimide and hydrogen fluoride...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 8, 2019
Japan's Rising Sun flag: A bone of contention for South Korea
Late last month, South Korean lawmaker An Min-suk of the ruling Democratic Party stood before the media in Seoul to explain a resolution proposed in the National Assembly.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 8, 2019
South Korea's Moon Jae-in won't attend Emperor Naruhito's enthronement ceremony, sources say
South Korea has told Japan that it may send Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon to attend Emperor Naruhito's enthronement ceremony on Oct. 22, rather than President Moon Jae-in, according to diplomatic sources.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 7, 2019
U.S., Japan and South Korea to discuss U.S.-North Korea talks during Washington meet
Senior government officials from the United States, Japan and South Korea will meet in Washington this week to discuss the outcome of U.S.-North Korea working-level talks, the South Korean Foreign Ministry said Monday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 7, 2019
Japan apparel firm Onward to pull out of South Korea amid worsening relations
Apparel and lifestyle firm Onward Holdings Co. said Monday it will pull out of South Korea next year amid worsening relations between the two countries.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 4, 2019
Saving the Japan-South Korea relationship
Historical and territorial disputes have consistently marred bilateral ties, but relations between the two democracies have hit a new low.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 4, 2019
Tokyo ready to share info on North Korea missile with Seoul despite row
Japan is ready to share, as requested by South Korea, information related to the launch a day earlier of what North Korea claims to have been a submarine-launched ballistic missile, government sources said Thursday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Oct 3, 2019
The quiet push to fix fractured Japan-South Korea relations
Almost a year has passed since the South Korean Supreme Court handed down a ruling ordering Japanese firms to pay damages to wartime forced laborers.

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