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SOUTH KOREA

ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Jan 9, 2017
South Korean leader's friend Choi Soon-sil now charged with bribery
South Korean special prosecutors team have filed fresh charges including bribery against a close friend of impeached President Park Geun-hye, the central figure in a political scandal that has engulfed the country, the team said Monday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 9, 2017
North Korean nukes seen as time bomb for any potential Trump re-election bid
North Korea will probably claim with credibility within four years that it can hit the U.S. with a nuclear weapon, a potential time bomb for Donald Trump's re-election prospects, according to Christopher Hill, a former senior U.S. diplomat who led talks with the reclusive regime.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 6, 2017
Japan recalls envoys over new 'comfort women' statue in Busan
The Japanese ambassador to South Korea is recalled over a new statue representing the wartime “comfort women” near the Japanese Consul in Busan.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 6, 2017
Chatty and funny, elite North Korean defector becomes media star in South
South Korea's newest celebrity took an unusual route to the nation's TV screens — years spent working his way up through the ranks of North Korea's diplomatic corps, followed by months secluded in the custody of the rival South's spy agency.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 6, 2017
U.S. sees 'qualitative' improvement in North Korea's nuclear, missile capabilities
The United States said on Thursday North Korea had demonstrated a "qualitative" improvement in its nuclear and missile capabilities after an unprecedented level of tests last year, showing the needed to sustain pressure on Pyongyang to bring it back to disarmament negotiations.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 5, 2017
South Korean court has little precedent and wide latitude in Park impeachment trial
The South Korean court that will rule on the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye has only one precedent and little in the law books to go by, and several legal experts said it will have wide discretion in deciding if she is fit to remain in office.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 4, 2017
North Korea's claim of ICBM test plausible, experts say
North Korea has been working through 2016 on developing components for an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), making the isolated nation's claim that it was close to a test-launch plausible, international weapons experts said on Monday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Jan 4, 2017
Trump's North Korea red line could come back to haunt him
In three words of a tweet this week, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump vowed North Korea would never test an intercontinental ballistic missile.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 3, 2017
China's dangerous 2017 dominates the region
Fears of a Chinese financial crash loom large, but Japan and South Korea also face thorny challenges.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 3, 2017
How ties to an 'equestrian princess' landed Samsung at the center of the Park scandal in South Korea
Samsung Electronics' sponsorship of the equestrian daughter of a longtime friend of President Park Geun-hye has helped to land South Korea's top company in the center of the country's influence-peddling scandal.
EDITORIALS
Dec 28, 2016
Beyond Abe's Pearl Harbor visit
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to Pearl Harbor serves as a reminder of the need for full reconciliation with Japan's Asian neighbors that suffered from its past aggression and colonial rule.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Dec 27, 2016
Following unruly passenger incident, Korean Air to get tough and ease stun gun rules
Korean Air Lines said it will allow crew members to "readily use stun guns" to manage violent passengers and will hire more male flight attendants after coming in for criticism from U.S. singer Richard Marx over its handling of a recent incident of in-flight violence.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Dec 21, 2016
U.N.'s Ban offers strongest hint yet of run at South Korean presidency
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon gave his strongest signal yet on Tuesday that he will seek the South Korean presidency next year as a corruption scandal that reached the highest level of government continues to roil the country.
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 21, 2016
U.S. tightens sanctions against North Korea's U.N. diplomats
The U.S. Treasury Department tightened sanctions against North Korean diplomats to the United Nations, requiring banks to get special permission before granting them accounts, the agency said in a notice posted online Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Dec 21, 2016
South Korea special prosecutors raid National Pension Service office over Park Geun-hye corruption scandal
South Korean investigators raided the office of the National Pension Service, the world's third-largest pension fund, on Wednesday in their probe over a corruption scandal that led to parliament's recent vote to impeach the president.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 19, 2016
U.S. may be losing East Asia to China
Emerging rifts between a number of East Asian states and the U.S. will likely grow worse with Donald Trump in power.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 19, 2016
Should South Korea be worried?
South Korea's domestic political turmoil is a bigger threat to its national security than U.S. foreign policy under a Trump presidency,
BUSINESS
Dec 18, 2016
U.K., looking beyond Europe, to hold regular trade talks with South Korea
The U.K. and South Korea are set to begin regular trade talks, with luxury brands a particularly promising topic, as Britain prepares to expand its commercial reach once it has left the European Union.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Dec 18, 2016
South Korea's year of reckoning, from H-bomb test to Park impeachment
It began with a nuclear explosion and ended with a street party where some 800,000 people sang and smiled in the freezing Seoul sunshine to celebrate the impeachment of their president. Even for a country with a modern history as tumultuous as South Korea, 2016 has been an eventful year.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Dec 17, 2016
The politics of protest in Asian democracies
Across Asia we are witnessing political turmoil and vigorous political contestation. South Korea's "candlelight revolution," involving millions of citizens demonstrating for several weeks in Seoul, instigated the landslide vote to impeach President Park Geun-hye by the National Assembly on Dec. 9. In...
Two men suspected of smuggling 1 ton of gold into Japan from South Korea
U.K. gold bullion bars and coins are displayed at Baird & Co. in Hatton Garden in London.
Japan plans higher visa fees for foreign residents
Along with planned higher fees for foreign residents to stay, Japan is looking to raise the ¥3,000 single-entry visa fee for inbound tourists to Western standards in the next fiscal year.
Japan set to lean on U.S., allies for support if China escalates
U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in Tokyo, on Oct. 28.
Japanese court orders Cloudflare to pay ¥500 million over manga piracy
Cloudflare has been ordered to pay ¥500 million after four major publishing firms accused the firm of copyright infringement for its role in hosting sites that distribute pirated copies of manga titles.
Japan businesses brush off worries over China tourists
Tourists board a bus after sightseeing in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district on Wednesday.
Japan plans higher visa fees for foreign residents
Along with planned higher fees for foreign residents to stay, Japan is looking to raise the ¥3,000 single-entry visa fee for inbound tourists to Western standards in the next fiscal year.
First foreign president of Hosei University looks abroad for change
Hosei University President Diana Khor, who herself was an international student, aims to encourage students to look outward and cultivate a global mindset.
Japanese companies advised to change mindset about investment in Africa
Bernard Laurendeau, chief of Enkopa Lab Japan, in Tokyo last month
Munetaka Murakami headlines quartet looking to move to MLB via posting system
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The reality of human trafficking in Japan
A view of Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward at night. Last year in Japan, 66 people were put in protective custody as victims of human trafficking. Among them, 58 — including all 41 minors — were Japanese nationals. International pressure to act on human trafficking led Japan to make efforts to crack down on the crime, such as a tightening of conditions in 2005 for entertainer visas.

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