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JAPAN
Dec 9, 2022
Yusaku Maezawa picks K-pop star TOP and DJ Steve Aoki to join SpaceX moon trip
Maezawa bought every seat on the maiden lunar voyage by SpaceX, which has been in the works since 2018 and would follow his trip on a Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station.
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MORE SPORTS
Sep 22, 2022
South Koreans form backbone of International team's Presidents Cup hopes
Adding Japan's Hideki Matsuyama, a record five Asian players are represented on the International squad.
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JAPAN
Nov 18, 2021
U.S. effort to show unity backfires as Japan and South Korea skip presser
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman acknowledged that the absence of her counterparts at a post-meeting news conference underscored fraught relations between the two.
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JAPAN
Jul 21, 2021
Japan, U.S. and South Korea affirm importance of peace across Taiwan Strait
Top officials from the three countries also used a meeting to send a clear message with their coordination on policy toward North Korea, despite recent frictions between Seoul and Tokyo.
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CULTURE / Film
Jul 3, 2020
‘Japan Sinks: 2020’: When disaster strikes, keep your family close
Masaaki Yuasa's new anime series about the literal sinking of Japan may hit close to home for viewers, but the main takeaway is that love is the key to survival.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Jun 11, 2020
South Korea top court upholds jail term for Park Geun-hye's friend
South Korea's top court Thursday upheld a lower court decision that sentenced a longtime confidante of former President Park Geun-hye to 18 years in prison over a corruption scandal that led to her 2017 ouster.
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JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 28, 2019
Fujisawa man fined ¥300,000 for using online hate speech against Kawasaki resident
The Kawasaki Summary Court orders a man to pay a u00a5300,000 fine for making derogatory and racist remarks against a Korean resident of Japan on Twitter.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Mar 5, 2018
South Korea shuts famed 84-year-old poet's exhibition amid sex harassment claims by rival
South Korea's capital has closed an exhibition by poet Ko Un, long the country's hope for a Nobel Prize in literature, amid allegations of sexual misconduct and the government is considering removing his work from textbooks.
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OLYMPICS
Feb 21, 2018
Alina Zagitova leads Evgenia Medvedeva after record-breaking short program
Alina Zagitova of the Olympic Athletes from Russia smashed the world record to take the lead after the women's short program at Gangneung Ice Arena on Wednesday.
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JAPAN
Aug 4, 2017
South Korea's ex-foreign minister OK after emergency surgery in Kochi
Former South Korean Foreign Minister Choi Sung-hong has returned to his country in stable condition after experiencing an intracerebral hemorrhage — a type of stroke — that put him in critical condition that required him to undergo surgery in Kochi Prefecture
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Figure Skating / ICE TIME
Apr 11, 2017
Hanyu's legend continues to grow with latest masterpiece
It has been 12 days now since Yuzuru Hanyu's epic free skate at the world championships in Helsinki won him a second title, and rather than receding into the memory banks of our minds, it continues to resonate.
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Figure Skating
Feb 25, 2017
Choi collects Asian Winter Games gold
Rika Hongo struggled in the free program Saturday and missed out on a medal in the women's figure skating competition at the Asian Winter Games, placing fourth.
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Figure Skating
Feb 23, 2017
Hongo recovers from fall, places second in women's short program
Rika Hongo stumbled on the ice and placed second on Thursday in the women's figure skating short program at the Asian Winter Games.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 3, 2017
How ties to an 'equestrian princess' landed Samsung at the center of the Park scandal in South Korea
Samsung Electronics' sponsorship of the equestrian daughter of a longtime friend of President Park Geun-hye has helped to land South Korea's top company in the center of the country's influence-peddling scandal.
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SOCCER
Dec 10, 2016
Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors, Club America poised for Club World Cup quarterfinal clash
Asian champion Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors concedes that Club America might be the better side but said Saturday they will still try to topple the Mexican club in Sunday's Club World Cup quarterfinal match.
EDITORIALS
Nov 30, 2016
Another twist in the Park scandal
Even if President Park Geun-hye does step down, the vacuum at the apex of South Korean politics will persist.
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COMMENTARY / World
Nov 22, 2016
A sad ending looms for Park's political career
Even if South Korean President Park Geun-hye isn't forced to resign, she's finished politically.
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CULTURE / Film
Jul 13, 2016
Korean films take on the thorny topic of Japan
Last year, one of the biggest films in South Korea was a swashbuckling tale of freedom fighters battling against a cruel oppressor: Japan.
JAPAN / History
May 22, 2015
Tokyo, Seoul make little progress in resolving UNESCO heritage feud
Japan and South Korea failed to find common ground Friday over Tokyo's controversial proposal to have historical industrial sites put on UNESCO's World Heritage list, a move Seoul is attempting to block as they include places where Koreans were forced to toil after being shipped over during Japan's annexation of the Korean Peninsula from 1910 to 1945.
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CULTURE / Art
Oct 30, 2014
Kunisaki Art Festival shows works worth the hike
To visit Antony Gormley's "Another Time" — a life-sized iron figure which looks eastward across Oita Prefecture's Sento district of Kunisaki from atop a mountain ledge — is a breathtaking experience. Not just because it's a stong piece of art or that the location offers a stunning vista of verdant treetops and rolling hillsides, but because it also involves a bit of a trek to get to it — 20 minutes if you start from the reception hut, 70 if you take the full hiking course.

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Later this month, author Shogo Imamura will open Honmaru, a bookstore that allows other businesses to rent its shelves. It's part of a wave of ideas Japanese booksellers are trying to compete with online spaces.
The story isn't over for Japan's bookstores