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SOUTH KOREA

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SOCCER
Jul 28, 2022
Japan clinches East Asian title with win over South Korea
The Samurai Blue won the East Asian Football Federation E-1 Championship for only the second time thanks to a 3-0 victory over the three-time defending champions at Toyota Stadium.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 27, 2022
On armistice anniversary, North Korea warns of 'second Korean War'
The foreign ministry in Pyongyang blamed the U.S. and South Korea for inflaming hostilities, calling the two a 'horde of belligerents wanting the wretchedness of war.”
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ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 27, 2022
Honeymoon over for South Korea's Yoon as police feud adds to woes
Just two months into his term, Yoon was already struggling with surging inflation, rising COVID-19 cases and historically low approval numbers.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Jul 26, 2022
South Korea doubles down on risky ‘Kill Chain’ plans to counter North's nuclear threat
Seoul is pouring resources into preparing for preemptive strikes if necessary, a strategy some experts say may exacerbate their arms race and risks miscalculation during a conflict.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 25, 2022
U.S. helicopters hold first live-fire military drills in South Korea since 2019
The drills come as the allies announced they would resume other live field training during joint exercises scaled back because of COVID-19 and efforts to reduce tension with the North.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 23, 2022
South Korea restores military drills once reduced to help Trump
The allies will return to practicing war scenarios in person, replacing training over the past three years that used computerized command-and-control simulations.
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JAPAN
Jul 22, 2022
Ukraine war — and impact on Asia — take top billing in Japan defense white paper
In its annual defense report, Japan underscored the war's potentially long-lasting impact, devoting an entirely new section to the conflict and its implications for Asia.
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BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Jul 21, 2022
As inflation hits, Asia’s central banks play catch-up in global rush to raise rates
The rest of the world, including emerging markets, began lifting rates as early as last June, after the U.S. Federal Reserve kicked off an accelerated timeline for its policy tightening.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 20, 2022
South Korea’s homegrown KF-21 fighter takes to the skies for first time
First rolled out in April 2021, the twin-engined aircraft bore the flags of both South Korea and Indonesia — the only foreign partner in the program.
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BUSINESS / Markets
Jul 19, 2022
Janet Yellen touts ‘friend-shoring’ as global supply chain fix
Yellen called on 'trusted” U.S. allies to strengthen trade relationships disrupted by the pandemic, the war in Ukraine and threatened longer term by a reliance on China.
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COMMENTARY / World
Jul 19, 2022
A visit that could soothe Tokyo’s suspicions of Seoul
The visit to Japan by South Korea's foreign minister, Park Jin, could be the most consequential of the Yoon presidency.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 19, 2022
South Korea to boost air power by expanding F-35 fighter fleet
Seoul will deploy an additional 20 F-35A stealth fighters by 2028 to further bolster its aerial strike capabilities amid concerns over Pyongyang's growing military prowess.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Jul 17, 2022
South Korea celebrates Pride after two-year hiatus
South Korea's Pride parade returned from a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, with revelers chanting and waving rainbow flags in Seoul as conservative groups protested.
JAPAN
Jul 15, 2022
South Korea seeks to kick-start talks to resolve historical feuds with Japan
The high-level visit to Tokyo by South Korean officials comes amid concerns the death of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe could disrupt efforts to mend ties.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 14, 2022
South Korea politics roiled by pair sent to North and likely killed
South Korean prosecutors are investigating members of former President Moon Jae-in's government over the 2019 forced repatriation of two North Koreans.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 11, 2022
South Korea's Yoon suspends informal media briefings, citing COVID-19
The end of the free-wheeling briefings, which broke with years of tradition, also comes amid growing questions over scandal and party turmoil.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 10, 2022
South Korea detects apparent North Korean artillery fire
Seoul announced that the shots were detected after 6 p.m. and that the military had strengthened surveillance and alert levels, without mentioning any further response.
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JAPAN / Politics
Jul 10, 2022
South Korea's Yoon to visit Japanese Embassy to offer condolences over Abe death
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol is also likely to dispatch a delegation led by Prime Minister Han Duck-soo to a government memorial service for Abe later this week.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 6, 2022
South Korean spy agency files complaints against ex-chiefs over North Korea cases
Two former chiefs, who led the agency under the liberal Moon Jae-in government, have been accused of ordering an investigation to end and destroying intelligence documents, respectively.
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BUSINESS
Jul 5, 2022
Japan and South Korea buyers not yet asked to pay rubles for Russian LNG imports
Russia has already demanded ruble payments from European oil and gas buyers as its economy, cut off from the global financial system, faces a grave crisis.
Japan ruling bloc loses majority in Upper House after election drubbing
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who serves concurrently as president of the Liberal Democratic Party, leaves at the party's headquarters following announcement of Upper House election result projections in Tokyo early Monday.
‘Japanese First’ Sanseito emerges as powerful force after Upper House poll
Sanseito leader Sohei Kamiya in Tokyo on Sunday night
Foreign residents closely follow Japan's election and party pledges
A police officer walks past posters of Liberal Democratic Party candidates, as well as one showing Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, outside the party's headquarters in Tokyo on Sunday. As Japan’s foreign population continues to rise, one of the talking points during Sunday’s election was how the country should deal with the increase of international residents.
Japan’s top brands get tied up in the great sunscreen debate
A coral reef in Okinawa in July 2022. Some jurisdictions around the world have moved to ban certain sunscreens in a bid to protect coral reefs, but some say the impact on reefs is far from clear.
Hitomi Obara, 2012 Olympic champion in wrestling, dies at 44
Hitomi Obara competes at the London Olympics in August 2012.
Japan’s top brands get tied up in the great sunscreen debate
A coral reef in Okinawa in July 2022. Some jurisdictions around the world have moved to ban certain sunscreens in a bid to protect coral reefs, but some say the impact on reefs is far from clear.
Pentagon looks to unleash ‘military drone dominance’
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth hosts a drone demonstration at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, on July 10.
‘Noto Democracy’ and the slow work of civic change
Yukio Iokibe’s “Noto Democracy" centers on Motoyuki Takii, a former junior high school teacher who publishes a handwritten newspaper every month to encourage the residents of Anamizu, Ishikawa Prefecture, to engage in local politics.
In microbes we trust: Embracing the nature of fermented food
You don't need an oven to make Kenji Morimoto's easy and delicious Miso Sticky Toffee Crepe Cake.
Touring the Silk Road — without leaving Tokyo
One of the entrances to Pao Compound, a nine-story Silk Road-inspired complex in Tokyo's Higashinakano neighborhood

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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