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SOUTH KOREA

Jang Dong-hyeok, the newly elected leader of the main opposition People Power Party, speaks during the final round of its convention in Seoul on Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 26, 2025
South Korea opposition party picks backer of ousted President Yoon as leader
The People's Power Party picked Jang Dong-hyeok, a two-time lawmaker who joined right-wing rallies organized by Christian churches and spoke out in defense of Yoon.
U.S. President Donald Trump and South Korean leader Lee Jae Myung attend a bilateral meeting in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 26, 2025
'Peacemaker’ Trump says he wants to meet North Korea’s Kim this year
The U.S. president said “big progress” was possible, during a summit with South Korean leader Lee Jae Myung in Washington that also focused on defense and trade issues.
The Saudi Arabia delegate waves the OCA flag during the closing ceremony of the Asian Winter Games in Harbin, China, on Feb. 14.
MORE SPORTS
Aug 25, 2025
Olympic Council of Asia says Asian Winter Games in Saudi Arabia 'on schedule'
Saudi Arabia is supposed to host the next edition of the regional winter competition in a move derided by environmental groups.
Hours before talks with U.S. President Donald Trump, South Korean leader Lee Jae Myung has signaled that reaching a deal with Washington on its demand to have U.S. forces in South Korea play a larger role in countering China will prove difficult.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 25, 2025
Lee signals resistance to shifting U.S. Forces Korea’s focus to China
President Lee Jae Myung’s remarks come just hours before he meets with U.S. President Donald Trump in talks that are expected to be dominated by defense and security issues.
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba shake hands at joint press announcement after summit talks in Tokyo on Saturday.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 24, 2025
At meeting rich in symbolism, Ishiba and South Korea's Lee agree to steadily build ties
In the two countries' first joint document in 17 years, the leaders agreed to work together "to advance future-oriented and mutually beneficial common interests."
A combination image released Sunday shows firing tests of anti-aircraft missiles and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un flanked by Korean People's Army officers at unknown locations.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 24, 2025
North Korea test-fires two new air-defense missiles
Pyongyang did not offer any detailed description of the new missiles, only that their "operation and reaction mode is based on unique and special technology."
Trojena, the ski resort that is scheduled to host events during the 2029 Asian Winter Games, is part of the planned Saudi megacity of NEOM, which has faced a string of challenges in recent years.
MORE SPORTS
Aug 24, 2025
Saudi Arabia and Olympic Council weigh moving Asian Winter Games
The event is seen as a key marker for Saudi Arabia’s global ambitions and the kingdom could eventually simply choose to scale back plans for the planned ski resort.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to military personnel based at Osan Air Base in South Korea in June 2019.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 23, 2025
Troop costs and China in focus when South Korea's Lee meets Trump
A U.S. official said a key area of focus of the summit would be so-called burden-sharing, with President Donald Trump expected to push the South Koreans for more.
A North Korean soldier stands guard in a watch tower next to a giant loudspeaker near the Demilitarized Zone dividing the two Koreas on June 12.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 23, 2025
Seoul says fired warning shots after North Korean troops crossed border
Pyongyang's state media said earlier Saturday that the incident occurred as North Korean soldiers worked to permanently seal the frontier dividing the peninsula.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung meet ahead of a summit in Kananaskis, Canada, in June. The two leaders will meet again on Saturday.
JAPAN
Aug 22, 2025
Japan and South Korea to expand working holiday program
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung are expected to agree on the matter when they meet in Tokyo on Saturday.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba shakes hands with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on the sidelines of the Group of Seven leaders' summit in Kananaskis in Alberta, Canada, on June 17.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Aug 21, 2025
Can Ishiba and South Korea’s Lee keep the hatchet buried?
The South Korean leader's unprecedented visit Saturday will highlight to what extent he has put his hard-line Japan views in the rearview mirror.
The estimated number of foreign visitors to Japan in July reached a record high for the month, driven by an increase in visitors, primarily from mainland China, Taiwan and the United States.
JAPAN
Aug 20, 2025
Japan tourism arrivals hit July record despite weather disruption and quake fears
Typhoon-related flight disruption and jitters about possible earthquakes contributed to a steep drop in visitors from Hong Kong.
Hajime Sakata, 88, talks about his war experience in the Korean Peninsula at his home in Fuefuki, Yamanashi Prefecture, in June.
JAPAN
Aug 19, 2025
Japanese man recalls 500-km journey home along Korean Peninsula after WWII
Hajime Sakata traveled with his family from what is now North Korea, where they lived, to get to Busan's port so they could return to Japan.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits the Choe Hyon destroyer in this photo released Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 19, 2025
North Korea's Kim threatens rapid nuclear expansion amid U.S. war games
The call by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un comes amid escalating tensions with the U.S. and South Korea as the allies conduct joint military drills.
U.K. Prime Miniter Keir Starmer speaks at the Jaguar Land Rover automobile manufacturing plant in Solihull, U.K. Starmer declared in May that his trade deal with U.S. President Donald Trump included a cut in U.S. tariffs on British steel to zero.
BUSINESS / Markets
Aug 18, 2025
Trade partners grow restless waiting for Trump’s tariff breaks
While deals have been cut, the lower tariff rates agreed have yet to kick in.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 16, 2025
On anniversary of WWII's end, China urges Japan to make the 'right choice'
"Only by remembering the past can straying onto the wrong path again be avoided," Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi was quoted as saying.
"Japan is our neighbor across the sea as well as an indispensable partner in our economic development,” South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said in a speech commemorating the end of Japanese colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 15, 2025
South Korea’s Lee calls Japan indispensable partner before visit
The South Korean president has spoken harshly of Japan in the past, declaring in 2016 that "Japan is an enemy country.”
Demonstrators burn a Rising Sun flag featuring a portrait of Hideki Tojo, former leader of Japan's Imperial Army and prime minister during World War II, outside the Japanese Consulate in Hong Kong in September 2015.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 14, 2025
Continued demands for an apology ignore Japan’s postwar progress
As the 80th anniversary of World War II’s end nears, demands for renewed Japanese apologies risk empowering authoritarian narratives, especially from China.
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung speaks during a news conference at the Blue House in Seoul on July 3.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 13, 2025
South Korean President Lee to visit Japan for summit with Ishiba, Seoul says
The leaders will discuss ways to improve regional peace and boost trilateral cooperation with Washington.
Shinto priests holding traditional umbrellas walk to the main shrine for a ritual to cleanse themselves during the annual Spring Festival at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo in April 2016.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 13, 2025
Dispelling the myth of Yasukuni Shrine
The shrine has been a lightning rod — especially as it has been used by some of Japan's neighbors as a convenient means to shift attention away from their domestic issues.
Philippine bid to acquire used Japanese warships gains steam
Tokyo is looking to transfer Abukuma-class vessels to the Philippines as part of broader efforts to boost the defense capabilities of like-minded neighbors amid growing Chinese military assertiveness in the region.
Japan Post to stop accepting some parcels for shipment to the U.S.
Japan Post's UGX will still be available for many rejected packages.
Japan aims to tighten rules for business manager visas from October
The number of foreign residents with business management residency status had reached a record 41,615 as of the end of 2024.
Tokyo releases AI-generated video of Mount Fuji erupting
A screenshot from an AI-generated video showing what could happen to Tokyo if Mount Fuji erupted
Character-crazed Japan has little appetite for Labubu
A pop-up advertisement for the newly opened Chiikawa Park in Tokyo's Ikebukuro neighborhood demonstrates how the country is chockful of cute characters — to the detriment of trends like Labubu.
Is Kishida plotting a return of the king? Or would he rather stay a kingmaker?
Former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida chairs a plenary session at the Ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development in Yokohama on Aug. 21.
Japanese prefectures break with labor ministry on minimum wage
The ministry of labor has suggested a 6% minimum wage increase, but most prefectures reporting so far are opting to go slightly higher.
Philippines quietly deepening ‘unofficial’ defense ties with Taiwan
Filipino soldiers take part in a flag-raising ceremony on Mavulis Island during a visit by the Philippines' Armed Forces chief of staff, in Batanes, the Philippines, in June 2023. Batanes, a group of idyllic islands at the country’s northernmost tip, sits about 160 kilometers from Taiwan.
Are 'coolcations' the answer for Japan's heat-weary tourists?
Hikers on a trail in Hakuba, Nagano Prefecture. As extreme heat continues to grip Japan, a tectonic shift may be underway in the nation’s summer tourism scene as more people gravitate toward cooler destinations.
Germany's first sakemaker offers a bold brew of ideas
Reigen, Germany's first sake brewery, makes a diverse, nontraditional range of sake that includes fruit-flavored sips and wine barrel-aged renditions.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
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