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Upping the ante in 'comfort women' row, South Korea speaker brands Japan a 'brazen thief'
In interviews with several South Korean media organizations, he doubles down on his demand for an apology from Emperor Akihito.
Demand for 'comfort women' apology by Emperor angered many in Japan, Abe says, as U.S. seeks calm
An intensifying feud between Tokyo and Seoul continued to escalate Wednesday, with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe telling a parliamentary committee that comments by the speaker of the South Korean National Assembly had angered many in Japan. Discord in the long-standing alliance also saw renewed attention ...
Japan demands South Korean speaker retract call for Emperor's apology to 'comfort women'
Abe denounced a top South Korean lawmaker’s comments about Emperor Akihito as “extremely inappropriate,” ratcheting up already high tensions between the two neighbors.
Japan's Taro Kono warns South Korean speaker after call for Emperor to apologize to 'comfort women'
Foreign Minister Taro Kono cautioned South Korea's top legislator against making divisive remarks after the lawmaker urged the Japanese Emperor to make a personal apology to women forced to work in the country's military brothels. Kono was responding to a question Sunday about South Korean ...
A profound development in Tokyo-Seoul relations
A recent ruling by South Korea's Supreme Court has global implications.
Top South Korean lawmaker seeks apology from Emperor to end 'comfort women' dispute
The lawmaker was asked how the nations could resolve a worsening diplomatic feud fueled by disagreements over Japan’s 1910-45 occupation of the Korean Peninsula.
Throngs gather near Japanese Embassy to mourn South Korean 'comfort woman'
Hundreds of mourners gathered Friday near the Japanese Embassy in Seoul for the funeral of a South Korean woman forced as a girl into a brothel to provide sex for the Japanese military during World War II. The mourners, dressed mostly in black on a ...
Outspoken South Korean 'comfort women' campaigner dies at age 92
Hundreds of South Koreans held a rally in Seoul on Wednesday to mourn the death of Kim Bok-dong, a former World War II "comfort woman" who died at age 92 as she lived — at the heart of the controversy over females pressed to ...
Japan Foreign Minister Taro Kono urges Seoul to keep promises as historical flashpoints fray ties
Foreign Minister Taro Kono on Monday urged South Korea to make good on promises made in bilateral pacts related to the issues of wartime labor and "comfort women," as diplomatic relations between the neighbors become increasingly frosty. The term comfort women is a euphemism used ...
Every January, Just Be Cause takes a look at how things went for the non-Japanese residents of Japan (NJ) in the previous year. While not everything made this year's list — there were the false claims of "foreigner fraud" of the national health insurance system, ...
Amid tensions with Japan, South Korea to boost world awareness on wartime sex abuses
South Korea is committed to advancing relations with Japan but its foreign minister says Seoul will step up efforts to share with the world its experience of Japanese wartime atrocities, including sexual violence against its women.
