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SOUTH KOREA

COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 7, 2015
Achieving true reconciliation
It takes two to tango, and to achieve reconciliation.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 7, 2015
Made in North Korea: goods store opens to brisk business in Seoul
A shop in South Korea's capital specializing in goods made in the North has run nearly $140,000 through its tills in just three months of business, helping dispel the notion that products from the impoverished state are shoddy and undesirable.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 6, 2015
Abe advisory panel cites wartime 'aggression' but fails to address recent revisionism
A key advisory panel to Shinzo Abe published its report Thursday on Japan's modern history and postwar reconciliation, strongly criticizing the wartime "aggression" against other Asian countries but touching little on recent controversies over what is widely regarded as the prime minister's revisionist...
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Aug 6, 2015
Hibakusha of 'Korea's Hiroshima' still press for redress
The nuclear bomb detonated as a 16-year-old girl sat in a shanty town cradling her baby, waiting for her mother to return from selling candy.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / HOTLINE TO NAGATACHO
Aug 5, 2015
Abe, offer a WWII apology alluding to the shame the West should share
The prime minister should explain to the world that he is sorry for the implications of Japan's warmongering past but rather glad that Japan avoided the fate of its neighbors by treading the imperial path.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Jul 31, 2015
North Korea-held Canadian pastor appears before Pyongyang TV to 'confess'
The head pastor of one of Canada's largest congregations, who has been detained by North Korea since February, appeared before media in Pyongyang and admitted to allegations against him, a spokeswoman for his Toronto-area church said on Thursday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 29, 2015
Lotte Group founder loses Japan CEO title amid succession scuffle
Lotte Group founder Shin Kyuk-ho is being ousted as chief executive of Lotte Holdings Co. in Japan in the latest succession scuffle between his two sons.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jul 17, 2015
North Korea's economy grew 1 percent in 2014, says South Korea's central bank
North Korea's economy expanded by 1 percent in 2014, the South Korean central bank said Friday, with a drought expected to hobble growth in one of the world's most isolated countries this year.
EDITORIALS
Jul 14, 2015
Repairing Japan-South Korea ties
Having cooperated to obtain UNESCO world cultural heritage status for their historical sites, Japan and South Korea should continue to strive to prevent differences over historical perceptions from further straining bilateral ties.
JAPAN / History
Jul 6, 2015
Government downplays forced labor concession in winning UNESCO listing for industrial sites
Japan wins UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Status for 23 industrial sites after conceding to South Korea's demand that the registration make clear that some of the locations used forced laborers from the Korean Peninsula.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 6, 2015
Toss South Korea off America's defense dole
With twice the population of the North and an economy 40 times larger, South Korea should be able to provide for its own defense.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Jul 5, 2015
Some South Koreans defy tradition with simple, cheap weddings
The night before their wedding, Kim Kwang-yoon and Cho Jin-oh were up until 2 a.m. with the bride's mother, setting tables. Their marriage venue: a room in the basement of Seoul City Hall, rented from the government for $60.

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A small shrine perched atop rocks braves the waves hitting the shoreline during a storm in Shimoda, Shizuoka Prefecture. The area is under threat of a possible 31-meter-high tsunami if an earthquake strikes the nearby Nankai Trough.
If the 'Big One' hits, this city could face a 31-meter-high tsunami