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SOUTH KOREA

Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 1, 2015
Thank Kim Young-sam for preserving the peace
The greatest legacy of the late South Korean President Kim Young-sam was preserving the peace when the dogs of war were almost unleashed once again on the Korean Peninsula.
WORLD
Nov 29, 2015
South Korea screens refugees with lie detectors and solitary confinement
South Korea has spent decades screening refugees from a hostile neighbor but some enemy agents manage to get through, underlining the challenges Western nations face in dealing with a far larger influx of people escaping the war in Syria.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Nov 28, 2015
Asia mostly backsliding on democratic values
In Japan, lawyers are fortunately not arrested by the state for doing their job, as they are in China. Nor are academics faced with indictment for challenging mainstream history narratives, as in South Korea.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 27, 2015
South Korea trains young hackers, plays catch-up years after North's elite unit proved abilities
In a darkened "war room" dozens of South Korea's brightest college students are practicing hacking each other as part of a government program to train them to battle some of the world's best — the shadowy techno-soldiers of Kim Jong Un's regime.
BASEBALL
Nov 21, 2015
South Korea crushes U.S. to win Premier 12 title
South Korea didn't need any ninth-inning heroics in the Premier 12 final.
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 20, 2015
'The game's afoot': North Korea proposes talks with South for next week
North Korea has proposed talks with South Korea to be held on Nov. 26 at the truce village on their militarized border, the North's official KCNA news agency said Friday.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 19, 2015
Could South Korea be turning Japanese?
South Korea's economy has grown by leaps and bounds, like Japan's once did, but now it risks falling into the same kind of malaise as well.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Nov 18, 2015
Retracing forced laborers' journey, Koreans finally bring their loved ones home from Hokkaido
A decade-long effort by civic groups in Japan and South Korea culminates in a 3,500-km journey to bring back the remains of wartime forced laborers.
Japan Times
BASEBALL
Nov 18, 2015
South Korea ready to face Japan in semifinals of Premier 12
The South Korean national team was completely overpowered by Japanese fireballer Shohei Otani in the opening game of the Premier 12 in Sapporo on Nov. 8.
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 18, 2015
South Korea to boost counterterrorism budget after Paris attacks
South Korea plans to increase its counterterrorism budget by around 100 billion won ($85 million) in the wake of Friday's attacks in Paris, the ruling party said on Wednesday.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Nov 7, 2015
South Korea's new state textbook 'corrects' history
South Korea recently announced plans for a revisionist textbook that will whitewash that country's history and has the academic community outraged over political meddling. At least the move gives South Korean President Park Geun-hye something in common with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 3, 2015
South Korea to take control of history textbooks in bid 'to correct bias'
South Korea's government on Tuesday said it would publish history textbooks for use in schools from 2017, to strip current teaching of its "ideological bias."
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 2, 2015
Abe, Park hold first bilateral talks since taking office, address 'comfort women' dispute
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Park Geun-hye agree to try to resolve as soon as possible the dispute over the 'comfort women.'
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 30, 2015
Trilateral East Asia summit will signal symbolic thaw with Japan: experts
When East Asia's top leaders finally convene in Seoul Sunday, expect little progress and lots of symbolism as China and South Korea make nice with Japan, experts say.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 27, 2015
South Korea to raise defense spending to deter threat from North
South Korea plans to raise defense spending by 4 percent next year, more than the average for the entire budget, as President Park Geun-hye sees stepped up military readiness as a way to pressure North Korea to seek dialogue.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 26, 2015
Japan, South Korea grow more 'cyber mature' as they build online defenses: study
A series of online attacks over the past year have spurred Japan and South Korea to bolster their cyberdefenses, improving their ranking on an annual list of countries' "cyber maturity," in which Australia notably dropped.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 26, 2015
U.S. should retire outdated alliance with South Korea
The U.S.-South Korean security treaty is entirely one-sided, and charity is no basis for foreign policy.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 22, 2015
Abe-Park summit would be 'a springboard' toward improved bilateral ties, expert says
The planned summit next month between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Park Geun-hye is 'a springboard' toward restoring normal bilateral ties but will not be enough to resolve deep-rooted issues between the nations, an expert has said.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 20, 2015
China's policy toward North Korea is changing
China is beginning to face an unfavorable political and strategic landscape that will compel it to change its North Korea policy whether it wants to or not.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 20, 2015
Asia-U.S. poll shows China's clout, not America's, expected to grow
A survey released Tuesday showed many people in Japan, the United States, China and South Korea expect China's influence in Asia to increase over the next 10 years. However, opinion is divided over whether Beijing will behave responsibly on the international stage.
Japanese markets brace for triple whammy if opposition wins big
A Sanseito campaign van in Shinjuku. The populist party is gaining ground and challenging the more centrist parties.
Sunken WWII Japanese warship Teruzuki found off Solomon Islands
The Solomon Islands. A team from the U.S. nonprofit Ocean Exploration Trust has discovered the Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer Teruzuki on the deep seabed off the Solomon Islands as the 80th anniversary of the war's end approaches.
Living conditions index hits lowest level in 15 years in Japan
The share of respondents to a Bank of Japan quarterly survey in June who said they have become worse off came to 61.0%, up 5.1 percentage points from the previous survey.
In Upper House race, younger voters in Tokyo turn to DPP for new direction
The Tokyo district has the highest number of candidates in the 2025 Upper House election with 32 people in the running for seven seats.
Japan's rice farmers are confounded by Shinjiro Koizumi’s policies
Kiyoshi Shibata stands in front of one of the rice paddies in Murayama, Yamagata Prefecture, where he produces the prefecture's signature rice brand Tsuyahime.
From stalking to death threats, female candidates still face harassment
Mayu Ushida, a former NHK newscaster running for election in the Tokyo electoral district on the Democratic Party for the People ticket, signs an autograph for a voter after a public rally at Shinjuku Station in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Kawaii Lab redefines idol pop for the TikTok generation
Misa Kimura is the main producer for Kawaii Lab, a project by entertainment agency Asobisystem whose groups have found success by pairing a social media-first strategy with a fresh perspective on traditional idol-pop tropes.
Craig Mod's life in motion in a disappearing Japan
Mod's memoir “Things Become Other Things” chronicles his walking trips across the Kii Peninsula, surveying “a graceful end to a certain life cycle.”
With China and Trump, Japan defense report says world entering ‘new era of crisis’
A senior member of a Self-Defense Forces honor guard inspects a formation before the arrival of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba for a visit to the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on June 30.

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