For Sangwon Yoon's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
A trail of money stretching from a Panamanian shipping agent to an octogenarian Singaporean to a Chinese bank provides a window on why U.S. efforts to tighten sanctions on North Korea may be harder to achieve than in the case of Iran. For decades North ...
The Bank of Japan has been communicating with officials around the world over turmoil in financial markets, Deputy Gov. Hiroshi Nakaso said, as stocks tumble and the yen surges. "Whether we have tools — I think we have tools, but this is something we have ...
Nago Mayor Susumu Inamine acknowledges his failure so far to prevent the relocation of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to ecologically sensitive land in his city. But he's not giving up. Inamine has questioned the effectiveness of the U.S. military force on Okinawa and vowed ...
