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JAPAN U S TIES

Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 22, 2019
China's ties with North Korea hurting Tokyo's hopes of realizing Abe-Kim summit
As Tokyo grapples with the best way to arrange a summit with Pyongyang, a close watch is being kept on Chinese President Xi Jinping's attempts to bolster ties with North Korea.
COMMENTARY / Japan / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Jan 26, 2015
Sex slave wrangling misses human picture
When a dispute arises between the South Korea and Japan, such as the 'comfort women' controversy, the South Koreans who most fiercely criticize Japan are 'liberals' while the Japanese who criticize South Korea are 'conservative rightists.'
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 1, 2014
Putting an end to the Japan-Korea history wars
As another war of words heats up, Japanese and South Korean leaders need to step back, recognize where the real interests of their people lie, and stop obsessing about the past.
EDITORIALS
Apr 23, 2014
Resuscitating Japan-China ties
It's high time leaders of Japan and China stopped fanning the flames of narrow-minded nationalism and started talking to each other in an effort to put bilateral relations back on track.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 31, 2014
A Korean who cherished her Japanese teachers
An 89-year-old Korean in Pennsylvania calls the latest spats between Japan and South Korea 'infantile and lamentable.' She remembers her Japanese teachers as loving people who 'poured their heart and soul into making good human beings out of us.'
COMMENTARY
Feb 28, 2014
An Abe-Park dialogue needed
South Korean President Park Geun-hye has entered her second year in office with little prospect that the chilly relationship between Japan and her country will improve.

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