Yasuhiro Morimoto, the Japanese consul general in Busan, was replaced Thursday after an unusually short term of about one year in which he was temporarily recalled from South Korea amid diplomatic friction involving the "comfort women" issue, the Foreign Ministry said. Consuls general usually serve ...
The South Korean Foreign Ministry has sent an official letter to a district office in Busan asking that a contentious statue symbolizing the women forced into Imperial Japanese military brothels before and during the war be removed from its spot outside the Japanese Consulate, ...
The final version of South Korea's state-issued middle school history textbook has added to a section about the history of a statue installed in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul representing "comfort women," claiming that some were mass-murdered by fleeing Japanese troops. An earlier ...
Former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, a potential presidential candidate, rebuffs Tokyo’s demand to remove the “comfort women” statues, saying the wartime issue is about more than money.
The head of the pro-Seoul Korean Residents Union in Japan said Thursday his group favors removing the statue in Busan dedicated to women forced to work in Japan's wartime military brothels. "We share our earnest hope with our fellow men living in Japan that (the ...
The Japanese ambassador to South Korea returned home from Seoul on Monday in protest of a statue in Busan dedicated to women and girls forced to work in Japan's wartime brothels. Ambassador Yasumasa Nagamine is expected to stay in Japan for a week or so, ...
South Korea expressed regret Friday about Japan recalling its ambassador over the new "comfort women" statue in Busan, and Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se summoned the envoy to discuss the matter. Earlier in the day, the Japanese government announced that it was temporarily recalling Ambassador Yasumasa ...
A civic group on Friday installed a statue symbolizing women forced to work in Japanese wartime military brothels in front of the Japanese Consulate in Busan, a move that could strain Japan-South Korea relations. The local ward office had said two days earlier that it ...
The 21st edition of Asia's biggest movie event, the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), which took place from Oct. 6 to 15, almost didn't happen; or, at least, that's the story being told. Actually, considering how important the festival is for South Korea's movie ...
Anti-Japan protesters lashed out at a South Korean employee of the Japanese Consulate General in Busan earlier this month as he stepped outside to photograph the protest, sources said Sunday. Japanese consular officials reported the March 1 assault to South Korean police and told them ...
The transport ministry is looking to acquire equity stakes in the companies that run the main container ports in Tokyo and Osaka amid strong competition from the port of Busan in South Korea, sources said. Businesses have been urging the government to get involved in ...
