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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is greeted by Kakao CEO Chung Shi-na during a press conference to announce partnerships on AI services in Seoul on Tuesday.
BUSINESS / Tech
Feb 4, 2025
OpenAI to deepen services within South Korea’s largest chat app
"We are particularly interested in AI and messaging," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told a press conference he held with Kakao CEO Chung Shi-na in Seoul.
Bereaved family members join hands at a memorial service for the Chousei coal mine accident in Ube City, Yamaguchi Prefecture on Saturday.
JAPAN
Feb 1, 2025
Victims of 1942 Yamaguchi underwater mine disaster remembered
The memorial event was held near the former site of the Chosei coal mine and was attended by about 450 people.
The front page of The Japan Times on Feb. 21, 1925, carried news of clashes in the streets over the debate of extending voting rights to Japanese males over the age of 25.
JAPAN / History / Japan Times Gone By
Feb 1, 2025
Japan Times 1925: Tokyo factions ready to fight over manhood suffrage bill in Diet
Objections from the country's 1% came as Japan debated extending voting rights to all men over the age of 25.
A memorial stone listing the names of 183 people who lost their lives in the flooding accident at Chosei coal mine in the city of Ube in Yamaguchi Prefecture in 1942, photographed in December
JAPAN
Jan 27, 2025
Survey to begin at western Japan site of 1942 undersea mine accident
The remains of 136 people from the Korean Peninsula and 47 Japanese nationals still lie in the flooded Chosei coal mine in Ube.
South Korea’s impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol arrives for his impeachment trial at the Constitutional Court in Seoul on Jan. 21.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 27, 2025
South Korean President Yoon's indictment: What happens next?
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's indictment on Sunday makes him the country's first sitting head of state to face a criminal trial.
The wreckage of the Jeju Air aircraft that went off the runway and crashed at Muan International Airport lies near a concrete structure it crashed into, in Muan, South Korea, Dec. 30.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 27, 2025
Duck remains found in both engines of Jeju Air plane that crashed, report says
The authorities are still trying to determine what caused the deadliest air disaster on South Korean soil.
Supporters of impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol (pictured on poster) attend a rally on a road near the Constitutional Court in Seoul on Thursday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 26, 2025
South Korean president indicted as 'ringleader of an insurrection'
The formal indictment with detention means impeached leader Yoon Suk Yeol will now be kept behind bars until his trial, which must happen within six months.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un observes a test of what state-run media said was a strategic cruise missile at an undisclosed location in this image released Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 26, 2025
North Korea tests 'strategic' cruise missiles as it lashes out at U.S. and South Korea
The test of the weapons, believed to be nuclear-capable, were the first since U.S. President Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration.
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol attends a hearing for his impeachment trial at the Constitutional Court in Seoul on Thursday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Jan 25, 2025
Seoul court rejects second request to extend Yoon detention
Yoon was arrested last week on insurrection charges, becoming the first sitting South Korean head of state to be detained in a criminal probe.
Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the State Department in Washington on Tuesday
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 24, 2025
Japan's foreign minister vows to take ties with U.S. to new heights
The minister said he will work to take the two countries' cooperation to new heights by building a strong relationship of trust with the Trump administration.
Supporters of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol protest in Seoul on Tuesday. The previous leaders of the U.S. and Japan, along with Yoon, focused on strengthening alliances and regional stability through cooperation whereas newly elected U.S. President Donald Trump’s approach to foreign policy may prioritize transactional relationships.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 24, 2025
Japan and South Korea were stable U.S. allies. Not anymore.
Political paralysis in the U.S., Japan and South Korea has left a leadership vacuum in the Indo-Pacific.
South Korea's impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol arrives to attend the fourth hearing of his impeachment trial over his short-lived imposition of martial law, at the Constitutional Court in Seoul on Thursday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 23, 2025
South Korea investigators seek Yoon indictment for insurrection and abuse of power
Yoon Suk Yeol, impeached and suspended from power on Dec. 14, has been incarcerated since last week.
A television screen displays a news report on South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, inside a restaurant in Seoul on Dec. 28. 2024
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 23, 2025
South Korea’s economy struggles to grow amid political crisis
The anemic quarterly growth figure points to an economy already in a weakened state, with the prospect of tariffs clouding the outlook for exports, a key engine of growth.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio meets with Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya at the State Department in Washington on Tuesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 22, 2025
Top diplomats agree to take U.S.-Japan alliance to 'new heights'
Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya and new U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio also agreed on the importance of trilateral cooperation with South Korea and others.
Impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol attends a hearing at the Constitutional Court of Korea in Seoul on Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 21, 2025
South Korea's Yoon attends impeachment trial over martial law bid
His decision to attend the impeachment hearing contrasts with his resistance to criminal proceedings against him.
Supporters of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol stand off against police outside the Seoul Western District Court in Seoul on Saturday, as the court weighs whether to extend his detention following his arrest by investigators a failed martial law bid.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 21, 2025
Yoon shuns questioning, as supporters face charges over court rampage
Security is being beefed up at the Seoul Detention Center where the impeached South Korean president is being held as a pretrial inmate and at the Constitutional Court.
A motorcade believed to be carrying impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeo arrives at the Seoul Detention Center in Uiwang, South Korea, late Saturday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 19, 2025
Protesters storm South Korea court after it extends Yoon's detention
The disgraced leader will now remain in custody, with a new warrant allowing investigators to keep him for up to 20 days.
Pro-Yoon Suk Yeol protesters participate in a rally outside a court in Seoul on Saturday where Yoon made an appearance before a judge.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 18, 2025
Yoon defends himself in court against longer detention
The president spoke before the judge for about 40 minutes in the first session and about five minutes in final remarks, according to local media.
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol delivers an address to the nation at the Presidential Office in Seoul on Dec. 12.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Jan 17, 2025
South Korea investigators file request to extend President Yoon's detention
In order to hold Yoon in custody for longer, investigators need a court to approve a detention warrant for up to 20 days.
A motorcade carrying South Korea's impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol leaves for the Seoul Detention Center at the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials following his arrest, in Gwacheon, South Korea, on Wednesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 16, 2025
South Korean president’s arrest shows peril as Trump returns
Bureaucrats in Seoul are hoping that Donald Trump goes easy on South Korea once he's back in the White House.
Japan must correct Trump’s false data for trade talks, says Kono
Former Foreign Minister Taro Kono
Japan wants to 'separate' tariff and security issues. That may be tough.
Japan’s chief tariff negotiator, Ryosei Akazawa, poses with a "Make America Great Again" cap at the White House in Washington on April 16.
Social media helps fuel growing 'sex tourism' in Japan
People walk down a street in the red-light entertainment area of Kabukicho in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo on March 31.
Japan set to fine cyclists on the spot for rule violations from 2026
Under new rules, those who use smartphones while riding a bicycle would be subject to the maximum fine of ¥12,000.
Naked man’s rampage in Saitama linked to one fatality and 10 injured
Police believe Daisuke Nishimura may have been involved in roughly 20 incidents in the 90 minutes leading up to his arrest, including a fatal hit-and-run and multiple assaults.
Amid uncertain tariffs, is now the time to buy a new iPhone?
An Apple store in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward in September. Prices for the newest iPhone models start at around ¥100,000 ($700) in Japan.
Built in a flash, Osaka Expo pavilions wrestle with sustainability
Kengo Kuma & Associates oversaw the construction of the Malaysia pavilion, which is encased in interwoven rows of bamboo that appear to ripple.
Japan weighs using U.S. rice imports as tariff negotiation tool with Trump
A restaurant owner pours California-grown Calrose rice into a rice cooker at his restaurant in Tokyo
Is Japan’s parliament ready to welcome more youth to its ranks?
Lower House lawmaker Kai Odake in his Tokyo office on Wednesday
Crow meat, goat tartare: Mauvaise Herbe raises its game
Crow meat, shaped into a ball and attached to a foot of the bird, is one of the peculiar offerings of game at Mauvaise Herbe.

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