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A ceremony was held in Tainan Sunday to mark the completion of repair of the vandalized statue of a Japanese engineer who made great contributions to the agricultural development in southern Taiwan during Japan's colonial rule. Last month the head of the statue of Yoichi ...
Tokyo has urged Seoul not to allow the erecting of a statue in front of the Japanese consulate in Busan that will reportedly symbolize Koreans conscripted to work during Japanese colonial rule, Japan's top spokesman said Wednesday. The installation of such a statue, if realized, ...
South Korea's new ambassador aims to get closer to Japanese people
South Korea's new ambassador to Japan, Lee Joon-gyu, said he wants to have a more intimate relationship with the Japanese people and shape bilateral relations toward the future. "I want to open the door of the ambassador's office open and do my best to have ...
Japan's past apologies over WWII, colonial history, 'comfort women'
Following are some key excerpts from Japanese leaders' previous statements on the country's militaristic past. Tomiichi Murayama on the 50th anniversary, 1995 "During a certain period in the not too distant past, Japan, following a mistaken national policy, advanced along the road to war, only to ...
Top envoys meet in pursuit of Japan-Korea thaw
Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and his South Korean counterpart, Yun Byung-se, agreed Sunday to step up their efforts to set up a summit between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and President Park Geun-hye "at an appropriate time." The talks took place a day before the wartime ...
Tokyo has demanded Seoul stop using the term "sex slaves" when referring to the "comfort women," Japan's euphemistic term for the tens of thousands of females who were forced to provide sex for Japanese troops before and during the war, sources close to Japan-South ...
Suspicion tarnishes 50th anniversary of Japanese-South Korean ties
As Tokyo and Seoul mark 50 years since normalizing bilateral relations after the war, the anniversary is unlikely to yield much to celebrate as trust issues continue to fester.
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."
Taiwan government to use new wording for Japanese colonial period
Taiwan's Executive Yuan, or Cabinet, instructed all government agencies Monday to begin calling the 50-year Japanese colonial rule of the island as the "Japanese occupation period" in official documents. The announcement came ahead of an Education Ministry decision over whether to also change the "Japan-governed ...
The Finance Ministry in 1962 considered allowing South Korean individuals to seek damages for World War II-linked suffering during Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula, according to diplomatic records disclosed recently, a civic group said Monday. The records were among classified documents on negotiations ...
