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SEOUL

EDITORIALS
Jun 18, 2015
South Korea's economic troubles
South Korea need to flexibly mobilize fiscal and monetary policy tools to boost its flagging economy.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 16, 2015
Time to hit the reset button on Tokyo-Seoul relations
The chilly relationship between South Korea and Japan doesn't serve either country well in the long run.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
May 5, 2015
Slum in shadows of Seoul's glitzy Gangnam district will likely soon be demolished
Close by the luxury high-rises of Seoul's most expensive neighborhood, 80-year-old Kim Ok-nyo burns charcoal to heat her two-room shack in Guryong, a shantytown of 2,000 residents.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 7, 2015
U.S. believed security for ambassador to Seoul was adequate before attack
Despite high tensions with North Korea, U.S. government experts believed security for the U.S. ambassador to South Korea was adequate before he was slashed by a knife-wielding attacker Thursday, the State Department said on Friday.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 28, 2015
Starting South Korea's new growth engines
With a new economic strategy that nurtures more diversified sources of growth, while reducing the country's excessive reliance on exports and large enterprises, South Korea can reinvigorate and sustain strong growth.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 10, 2014
Motives behind North Korea's Incheon landing
The unexpected visit of three top North Korean leaders to the closing ceremony of the Asian Games in Incheon last week stole the show from the athletes. Pyongyang relishes such moments.
COMMENTARY / World
May 5, 2014
Malaysia's jet, Korea's ferry tell larger stories
Tragedy has struck Malaysia and South Korea in recent weeks, with the travails of searching for a lost airliner and of recovering bodies from a sunken ferry played out in horrifying detail on the world's TV screens. Unlike Malaysia, though, South Korea is likely to come out of its crisis stronger than ever.

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"Shake hands with Lima-chan," a statue that shares the name of the Peruvian capital looks in the direction of Peru, where a sister statue, "Sakura-chan," is located. Erected in Yokohama's Rinko Park in 1999, it commemorates Peruvian-Japanese friendship.
The journey of Peru’s Nikkei: Finding identity in Japan