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Lee Jae-myung, the presidential candidate for South Korea's Democratic Party, speaks during a news conference after casting his early vote for the upcoming presidential election in Seoul on Thursday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
May 29, 2025
Martial law put Lee Jae-myung back on track for South Korean presidency
The liberal politician favored to become the country's next leader has overcome a knife attack and criminal charges on his unexpected path back toward the top post.
The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has sought to ramp up deportations and revoke student visas as part of wide-ranging efforts to meet its hard-line immigration agenda.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
May 29, 2025
South Korean students warned over social media posts amid Trump administration crackdown
South Korean students are the third-largest among international students in the U.S., behind those from India and China.
The Chinese Communist Party has significantly expanded its global influence operations by using tactics like election interference, disinformation, elite capture and pressure on the diaspora to sway politics and policies in democracies worldwide.
COMMENTARY / World
May 28, 2025
Is Beijing engineering election wins for 'soft on China' politicians?
Beijing legally requires all citizens to support Communist Party policies and views ethnic Chinese everywhere as instruments for advancing its global goals.
Seol Nan-young, the wife of South Korea's main conservative party candidate, during an event in Seoul on May 21.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
May 27, 2025
Candidate spouses take center stage in South Korea's heated presidential race
The wife of South Korea's main conservative party candidate is campaigning on her own to tarnish the image of the liberal front-runner and his spouse.
Supporters of South Korean presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung listen to a speech during a campaign event in Uijeongbu, in South Korea's Gyeonggi Province, on Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
May 27, 2025
South Korea's liberal candidate Lee in the lead a week before presidential vote
The deeply polarized country is set to hold a snap election on June 3 to pick a successor to Yoon Suk Yeol, who was ousted on April 4.
An activist holds a sign to protest against U.S. tariffs policy at the venue for an APEC trade ministers' meeting in Seogwipo on Jeju island, South Korea, on May 16.
BUSINESS / Economy
May 26, 2025
U.S. demanded South Korea resolve trade imbalance in recent talks: reports
The U.S. repeatedly raised the issue of the trade imbalance in the commodity sector and both countries agreed it was necessary to address it, the reports said.
Lee Jae-myung, the Democratic Party's presidential candidate, speaks during a campaign event in the city of Uijeongbu, South Korea, on May 20.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
May 26, 2025
South Korea's Lee pledges to restore hotline with North Korea
The front-runner in South Korea's presidential election laid out a noticeably softer approach to the nuclear-armed North than his predecessor.
Lee Jae-myung, the presidential candidate for South Korea's Democratic Party, prepares for the second televised debate for the upcoming presidential election in Seoul on Friday.
BUSINESS / Economy
May 25, 2025
South Korea presidential front-runner Lee suggests extending U.S. tariff talks
Lee Jae-myung said the deadline to reach a deal needs to be reconsidered to find a mutually beneficial agreement between the two allies.
This satellite image taken Friday shows a new North Korean warship lying in the harbor after its failed launch in the port city of Chongjin.
ASIA PACIFIC
May 25, 2025
Three detained and blamed for North Korean warship accident
The ultimate fate of the three remains unclear, but leader Kim Jong Un has a history of making examples out of those who embarrass him.
Sakie Yokota (center) and other family members of Japanese nationals abducted to North Korea held a national rally in Tokyo on Saturday to demand the immediate return of all abductees.
JAPAN
May 25, 2025
Families demand North Korea return all Japanese abductees
The rally, organized mainly by the family group and an organization supporting such families, brought together about 800 people, including lawmakers.
Visitors walk along Nakamise-dori as they visit Sensoji temple in Tokyo's Asakusa district in March.
JAPAN
May 24, 2025
Travelers avoid trips to Japan over viral comic book’s quake prediction
Ryo Tatsuki, whom some claim predicted Japan’s 2011 earthquake, gives July 2025 as the date of the impending event in a 1999 graphic novel.
A supporter of ousted South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol holds a placard during a gathering near the Seoul Central District Court in the capital, where Yoon had appeared earlier in the day for another hearing in his criminal trial, as he defends himself against insurrection charges over his declaration of martial law.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / FOCUS
May 24, 2025
Meet the 'Yoonies': ex-president's shadow looms over South Korean poll
Experts say the ousted leader's influence continues to loom over the election, as he drew extreme religious figures and right-wing YouTubers into mainstream politics.
South Korean presidential candidates Lee Jae-myung (left), of the Democratic Party, and Kim Moon-soo, of the People Power Party, shake hands as they prepare for the second televised debate for the upcoming presidential election in Seoul on Friday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
May 24, 2025
South Korean presidential race tightens sharply after TV debate
The Democratic Party's Lee Jae-myung's support rate fell to 45%, while backing for the People Power Party’s Kim Moon-soo rose to 36%, according to a poll released Friday.
U.S. soldiers at Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, on May 9.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
May 23, 2025
Pentagon denies report of U.S. troop withdrawal plan for South Korea
The denial came after The Wall Street Journal reported that the White House is considering pulling out roughly 4,500 troops and relocating them.
A satellite image shows the North Korean warship in water at a shipyard after the launch accident, in Chongjin, North Korea, on Thursday.
ASIA PACIFIC
May 23, 2025
North Korea launches probe into accident during warship's launch
Pyongyang has said the incident on Wednesday was caused by a loss of balance while the vessel was being launched, and sections of the bottom of the warship were crushed.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba walks past members of the Philippine Coast Guard at the coast guard's headquarters in Manila on April 30.
JAPAN / Politics
May 22, 2025
Ishiba doubles down on weapons cooperation, saying no country can go it alone
Japan has sealed a spate of defense equipment and technology transfer deals in recent years while also looking to build up its homegrown defense industry.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a ceremony for the launch of the country's new destroyer in Nampo, North Korea, in this image released on April 26.
ASIA PACIFIC
May 22, 2025
North Korea's Kim offers rare admission of 'serious accident' with new destroyer
The incident, which occurred during a ceremony attended by leader Kim Jong Un, reportedly saw “sections of the warship's bottom crushed."
An aircraft approaches Haneda Airport. During the month of June, many travelers from South Korea landing at the airport will be eligible for fast-track entry procedures.
BUSINESS
May 21, 2025
Japan and South Korea to trial priority lanes for travel between the countries
The one-month trial program in June will be available to passport holders from either country who have visited the other at least once within the previous year.
Lee Jae-myung, the presidential candidate for South Korea's Democratic Party, gestures during an election campaign rally in Seoul on Monday. Officials in Tokyo are closely watching Lee’s remarks for hints of how bilateral relations could shift if he is elected.
JAPAN / Politics
May 21, 2025
South Korean presidential front-runner says he's not hostile toward Japan
Democratic Party candidate Lee Jae-myung has in recent months sought to highlight a more centrist agenda ahead of the presidential election.
Kim Moon-soo, the presidential candidate for South Korea's conservative People Power Party, attends an election campaign rally in Seoul on Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
May 19, 2025
South Korean conservative presidential candidate open to discussing U.S. troop costs
South Korea's conservative presidential candidate Kim Moon-soo said on Monday he was willing to discuss sharing more of the cost of stationing the U.S. military in the country.
Japan won’t wait for G7 summit for possible U.S. trade deal
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's top negotiator in tariff talks with the U.S. speaks to reporters at the Japanese Embassy in Washington on Friday.
Japanese universities step up to help international students after Harvard ban
The Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library at Harvard University. U.S. President Donald Trump has barred Harvard from accepting international students, prompting Japanese universities to offer support.
Japan eyes tougher rules for foreign residents and tax hike for tourists
A tax-free shop in Kyoto in April 2024. Last week, members of a Liberal Democratic Party study group drafted a proposal seeking to scrap the country's tax-free shopping system altogether.
Foreign tourists with unpaid medical bills in Japan to be denied entry
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks during ministerial meeting meeting on foreign residents in Japan on Friday at the Prime Minister's Office.
Victims mourned 17 years after Akihabara indiscriminate attack
A mourner prays for the victims of an indiscriminate fatal attack on a street of Tokyo's Akihabara district on the 17th anniversary of the incident on Sunday.
What can Kenji Yanobe’s cosmic cats teach us about humanity?
Kenji Yanobe’s spacesuited cats are the main characters of “Ship’s Cat Island,” the inaugural exhibition at Hyper Museum Hanno in Saitama Prefecture.
From ridicule to redemption: Rice crisis returns Koizumi to the spotlight
Agriculture minister Shinjiro Koizumi speaks to the media as he inspects a warehouse storing stockpiled rice in Kanagawa Prefecture on May 30.
New Naoshima museum bets on Asia, not the West
Detail of Takashi Murakami, “Rakuchu-Rakugai-zu Byobu: Iwasa Matabei RIP” (2023-25)
Japan’s prison reform focuses on rehabilitation
Justice Minister Keisuke Suzuki speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Friday. Suzuki said preparations for the changes that will focus more on rehabilitation are being actively made at each correctional facility.
Accidents raise concern over how Japan vets foreign drivers
Keita Ueno (right), the owner of Kiki Driving School and an instructor who supports both foreign nationals and Japanese citizens returning from abroad in getting their foreign driver’s licenses converted, is worried about the current lax system for the process.

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