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NORTH KOREA

JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 29, 2013
Police put abductee info on Web
The National Police Agency said Friday it will have prefectural police forces start publishing online the names, pictures and other data about people possibly abducted by North Korea to solicit information from a wide range of sources, after obtaining consent from their relatives.
JAPAN
Jun 29, 2013
Order to intercept North Korean missiles lifted
The government on Friday lifted an order for the Self-Defense Forces to shoot down North Korean ballistic missiles in the event that any are launched, sources said Friday.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 27, 2013
Abe's fixations threaten newfound unified approach on North Korea
Just as U.S. President Barack Obama seeks a united front to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe threatens to go rogue.
JAPAN
Jun 26, 2013
Japanese end 12-day trip to burial sites in N. Korea
A group of Japanese who used to live in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula wrapped up a 12-day trip to the country after visiting sites believed to contain the remains of family members who died around the end of World War II.
JAPAN
Jun 21, 2013
Act on denuclearization, then we'll talk: U.S., Japan, South tell North
Japan, the United States and South Korea have agreed that North Korea should take action on denuclearization before the six-party talks on its nuclear threat can resume, a senior Japanese official said.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 20, 2013
Japanese tour neighborhoods of their childhood in North Korea
A group of Japanese who used to live in North Korea toured Chongjin in the country's northeast Tuesday, with some recalling their childhoods in the port city as they visited for the first time in 68 years.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 18, 2013
Japanese make trip to N.K. burial site
Japanese visitors paid their respects Sunday at a site near the port of Chongjin in northeast North Korea for relatives who perished, many in a Soviet labor camp, after the end of World War II and the end of Japan's colonial rule of the peninsula.
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 18, 2013
North Korea needs sincere stance on denuclearization: Suga
A day after North Korea called for unconditional high-level dialogue with the United States, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihike Suga said Pyongyang should first show a willingness to discuss denuclearization.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 16, 2013
Alternatives to North Korea's denuclearization
Sooner or later North Korea must be brought back into negotiations. Some now call denuclearization a pipe dream, preferring to focus on arms control.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 11, 2013
North Korean nuclear crisis
North Korea's nuclear and missile programs are a source of instability and tension in a region vital to global security and economic prosperity.
JAPAN
Jun 7, 2013
More Japanese abductees 'certainly' alive in N. Korea: former official
Hiroshi Nakai, a former state minister in charge of the abduction issue, asserted Thursday that at least three or four Japanese kidnapped by North Korea are "certainly" alive.
JAPAN
Jun 2, 2013
Lost at sea cases to be probed for North Korea link
The government will investigate whether Japanese nationals who disappeared at sea in the 1970s and 1980s fell victim to foul play at the hands of North Korea, Keiji Furuya, state minister in charge of the abduction issue, declared.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 31, 2013
Abductee's son said among defectors
The son of a Japanese woman abducted by North Korea in the 1970s was among the group of nine defectors recently sent from Laos back to the reclusive country, a South Korean newspaper reports.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 29, 2013
Pyongyang offered to let Yokota's daughter go '10, but not to Japan
Pyongyang told Tokyo in May 2010 that it would allow Japanese abductee Megumi Yokota's daughter, Kim Eun Gyong, to leave North Korea as long as it wasn't to Japan, a source says.
JAPAN / Politics
May 28, 2013
North may have grabbed Japanese fishermen years ago
Japanese fishermen may have been abducted by North Korea decades ago while operating in the Sea of Japan, a South Korean activist says.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 27, 2013
Sibling spy case spotlights North Korean defectors
Earlier this year, one of the most prominent North Korean defectors, Yoo Woo Sung, walked out of his apartment building in Seoul and found four South Korean government vehicles waiting for him.
JAPAN / Politics
May 25, 2013
Noda aide visited North on sly to break impasse
A secret mission to Pyongyang last fall by a close aide of then-Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda led to Japan-North Korea talks in Mongolia in mid-November amid disagreements over the abduction issue
JAPAN / Politics
May 25, 2013
Abe demanding North abductees deadline
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's adviser called on North Korea during his visit last week to set a 'deadline' in bilateral talks aimed at resolving the thorny issue of the abductions of Japanese.
EDITORIALS
May 24, 2013
An overture to Pyongyang
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent an aide, Mr. Isao Iijima — a former secretary to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi — to North Korea last week in an effort to make progress on unresolved bilateral issues, including the past abduction of Japanese nationals by North Korean agents.
JAPAN
May 24, 2013
Abe resolve to be conveyed to Kim
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Thursday he believes his strong intention to resolve the long-standing abduction issue with North Korea will be conveyed to its leader, Kim Jong Un, after a recent Pyongyang trip by his adviser.
America wasn’t made for walking, and it’s killing them
A 2010 study found that U.S. adults averaged 5,117 steps daily and that this was lower than the averages found in similar studies in Switzerland, western Australia and Japan.
Rare sequel to 'My Neighbor Totoro' to play at Cannes
A screening of "Mei and the Baby Cat Bus," which is being billed as a "mini-sequel" to the Studio Ghibli classic "My Neighbor Totoro," is set to take place at the Cannes Film Festival on Monday.
Japanese stripper bids to have her porn movies taken off internet
Plaintiff Miyuki Ariga (left) speaks at a news conference along with her lawyer, Yoshitomo Morohashi, after filing a lawsuit at the Tokyo District Court on Monday.
Saudi crown prince seeks soft power in game hub Japan
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman welcomes Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, last July.
Japan survey finds 30% of student interns experience sexual harassment
The proportion of recent graduates in Japan who have worked as interns have experienced sexual harassment during their internship was 30.1%, according to a labor ministry survey, up 4.6 percentage points from the previous survey in fiscal 2020.
New Taiwan president to set tone for ties with China at inauguration
Taiwan President-elect Lai Ching-te arrives at the CyberSec 2024 Exhibition in Taipei on Wednesday.
Local theater in Japan is more than a hobby — it’s a community
Japan Times contributor Laura Pollacco (front right) was offered the role of one of her all-time favorite heroines, Elizabeth “Lizzie” Bennet, in the Tokyo International Players’ production of “Pride and Prejudice.”
Can AI-generated inventions be patented? A Tokyo court says no.
The Tokyo court's ruling comes amid ongoing debates on how to regulate generative AI and is part of a transnational class action lawsuit.
Massimo Bottura: 'The Japanese let ingredients express themselves'
Italian chef and restaurateur Massimo Bottura is increasingly focusing on passing on his knowledge to chefs such as Antonio Iacoviello.
Unraveling the Japanese prose of Yukio Mishima
Author Yukio Mishima accepts the Arts Festival Award in the drama category at the 20th Arts Festival Award Ceremony on Jan. 22, 1966.

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