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NORTH KOREA JAPAN RELATIONS

Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 1, 2014
Rocky start for Japan-North Korea talks on abductions
Senior Japanese and North Korean officials discussed specifics Tuesday of Pyongyang's promised establishment of a new body that will look into its past abductions of Japanese nationals.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 1, 2014
Tokyo and Pyongyang have agreed on visit to Japan by Yokota kin: Seoul paper
North Korea and Japan have agreed that the daughter of Megumi Yokota, who was abducted by North Korean agents in 1977, will visit Japan in November, a Seoul newspaper reports.
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 25, 2014
Japan, North Korea to hold abduction talks next week
The first round of talks with North Korea on its promised inquiry into the abductees issue will take place next Tuesday in Beijing, Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida says.
JAPAN
Jun 22, 2014
Japan wants North Korea to clarify 150 points over abduction issue
Tokyo planning to press Pyongyang for answers on 150 points related to the abduction of Japanese nationals that have remained unresolved since 2002.
JAPAN
Jun 17, 2014
North notification details discussed
Officials from Japan and North Korea are discussing how Pyongyang will inform Tokyo about the launch of a unit to conduct fresh investigations into the abductee issue, Cabinet members said Tuesday, which could happen as early as this week.
JAPAN
Jun 12, 2014
North said to resume reprogramming of abductees
North Korea this spring subjected abductees to mass ideological education on the superiority of the North's regime, according to the head of a group of victims' families.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 8, 2014
Japan sends list of 470 potential abductees to North Korea
The Abe government has presented North Korea a list of around 470 Japanese nationals it believes could have been abducted by the communist country, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga revealed Sunday.
JAPAN
Jun 3, 2014
Abe says talk of N. Korea visit 'premature'
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Tuesday it is premature to discuss whether he will visit North Korea, following Pyongyang's recent promise to reinvestigate the fate of Japanese nationals it abducted in the 1970s and 1980s.
JAPAN
May 31, 2014
Pyongyang abduction post eyed
Japan could station diplomats and police in North Korea following Pyongyang's vow to reinvestigate the whereabouts of Japanese abductees.
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
May 30, 2014
Abe taking gamble by trusting North Korea
Prime Minister Abe is taking a big gamble by trusting notorious North Korea because disappointing results from the abduction probe could have a high political price.
JAPAN / Politics
May 28, 2014
North Korea talks fall flat on abduction issue
Officials from Japan and North Korea failed to reach an agreement on whether to reinvestigate the abduction of Japanese nationals, following three days of “serious discussions” in Stockholm.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 22, 2014
Abductees harbor hopes for Tokyo-Pyongyang settlement
Several Japanese abducted as children and taken to North Korea in the 1970s and '80s are hoping that the upcoming talks between the two nations may bring some closure to their ordeal — although the issue is far from resolved for families whose relatives remain missing.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
May 20, 2014
Japan Supreme Court upholds verdict in intelligence chief fraud case
The Supreme Court has upheld lower court decisions finding a former head of the Public Security Intelligence Agency, Shigetake Ogata, guilty of defrauding real estate and cash from Chongryon, the group of pro-Pyongyang Korean residents.
JAPAN
May 12, 2014
Japan to suggest foreign minister talks with North Korea at ARF
Japan plans to sound out North Korea about holding foreign ministerial talks on the fringes of a regional conference in early August in Myanmar, a Japanese government source said Sunday.
JAPAN / Politics
May 5, 2014
Aid extension proposed for abductees
Any Japanese who was abducted by North Korea in the 1970s and 1980s will continue to receive financial assistance after the support law expires next March, government sources said Sunday of a plan to revamp it.
JAPAN / Politics
Apr 27, 2014
Next Japan-North Korea talks likely in May, unless nuclear test is held
The next round of talks between Japan and North Korea will likely be held in late May at the earliest as Tokyo waits to see how Pyongyang reacts to a court decision on the de facto North Korean Embassy building in Tokyo, government sources said.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 30, 2014
Japan, North Korea diplomats seek thaw in ties
At their first formal talks since November 2012, senior Japanese and North Korean diplomats on Sunday agreed to work toward settling "outstanding issues" impeding bilateral ties.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 24, 2014
Tokyo must use economic muscle in talks with North: Yokota's parents
The parents of Megumi Yokota, kidnapped by North Korea in 1977, express hope Tokyo will use Pyongyang's economic fragility as leverage to resolve the abduction issue at key talks next week.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 24, 2014
The abduction drama game
Clearly there are people in Japan who do not want any rapprochement with Pyongyang — who are using the abduction drama to continue the image of a Japan threatened by enemies and needing strong military forces for defense.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 20, 2014
Japan, North Korea to restart dialogue soon
Japanese and North Korean diplomats have agreed to work toward the resumption of formal intergovernmental talks for the first time since November 2012 "as soon as possible," a Japanese official said Thursday.
Weak yen fattens tourist wallets in Japan
People visit the Ameya Yokocho market in Tokyo's Ueno district during the Golden Week holiday on Tuesday.
Biden calls ally Japan ‘xenophobic’ along with rivals China and Russia
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks in Syracuse, New York, on April 25.
Number of vacant homes in Japan hits record high of 9 million
A vacant house in Tokyo is seen demolished in January 2020.
Saudi Arabia steps up Gaza-related arrests as Israel ties edge closer
The arrests for Gaza-related posts indicate Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s regime will take a hard line against citizens not toeing the line when it comes to normalizing ties with Israel.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
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Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.

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