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Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Apr 10, 2013
North Korea's U.S. diplomatic channel fades
Han Song Ryol, the North Korean diplomat who serves as his country's principal liaison with the United States, has spent the better part of the past two decades exploring the prospects for a normalized bilateral relationship with Washington.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 8, 2013
After days of escalating threats, China makes veiled criticism of ally North Korea
Responding to regional worries over North Korea's bellicose threats, China on Sunday expressed concern and what appeared to be veiled criticism of its longtime ally.
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 8, 2013
With latest tensions, Seoul puts North at arm's length
Despite years of tensions, a majority of South Koreans have long clung to a cautiously optimistic vision for their peninsula's future. Even if North and South Korea weren't one day unified, the thinking went, the countries would at least be connected by joint business ventures and rail lines, with some there even traveling on weekends to resorts in the North's mountainsides.
EDITORIALS
Apr 5, 2013
North Korea's provocations
International community members must deepen cooperation and watch their behavior as long as North Korea keeps baiting them with war drums.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Apr 1, 2013
North Korea secrecy fuels suspicions of bomb design
U.S. officials and independent experts say North Korea appears to have taken unusual steps to conceal details about the nuclear weapon it tested last month, fueling suspicions that its scientists shifted to a bomb design that uses highly enriched uranium as the core.
JAPAN
Mar 27, 2013
Most new high school textbooks describe Takeshima, Senkaku Islands as Japanese
The education ministry announces that most of the new textbooks approved for use in high schools starting in April 2014 describe the Senkaku Islands and Takeshima as Japanese possessions.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 26, 2013
Lessons from the cyber-attacks on South Korea
Japan seems ill-prepared for massive, simultaneous and physical disruption to critical infrastructures like last week's cyber-attacks on South Korea.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT
Mar 24, 2013
World faces rhino horn dilemma
Wildlife parts are valuable. A general rule of thumb is that the bigger the beast, the bigger the price. You don't get much bigger than a white rhino (3,000 kg). It is the largest grazing (i.e., purely grass-eating) animal that has ever lived. Its horn is worth, gram for gram, more than gold.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 17, 2013
South's foreign minister tells Abe to square up to past
New South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung Se has urged Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to "correctly" face up to historical issues stemming from Japan's colonization of the Korean Peninsula.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 17, 2013
South Korea faces Japan-like obstacles to growth
Even as leading South Korean firms outperform many of their Japanese rivals in the global market, the nation's economy faces mounting challenges, including slowing growth, an aging population and widening rich-poor gap — problems that the country shares with Japan, researchers from South Korean think tanks said at a recent symposium in Tokyo.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Mar 17, 2013
The rising of a nation
This superb book charts the improbable rise of South Korea from the devastation of war and impoverishment to rapid development and prosperity, and from brutal dictatorship to the most vibrant democracy in Asia. It is 'impossible' in terms of its economic and political achievements, 'the most unlikely and impressive story of national building of the last century,' Daniel Tudor writes.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Mar 14, 2013
Abe push to weaken currency erodes Japanese tourist spending in South
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's push to weaken the yen is echoing through the duty-free shops and tourist sites of South Korea, where Japanese visitors spent about $4.5 billion last year.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 14, 2013
China using Senkakus dispute to test Japan, U.S.
Beijing faces an awkward propaganda problem in the South China Sea, as its sovereignty claims are not against an original imperial or colonial power.
JAPAN
Mar 12, 2013
China skips 3/11 rites over invite to Taiwan
China's absence at the national ceremony commemorating the second anniversary of the 3/11 disasters was unfortunate, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga says, with the snub apparently in response to Taiwan's invitation.
BUSINESS / Economy
Mar 9, 2013
Seoul looking to host first talks on triple FTA
South Korea is seeking to hold the first round of talks on a free-trade deal with Japan and China in Seoul late this month, its foreign ministry said Friday.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 4, 2013
Park's challenge: Advancing South by rising above father's, Lee's legacies
The life of Park Geun Hye, South Korea's just-inaugurated first female president, has so far been bookended by two larger-than-life men of debatable success.
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 1, 2013
Seoul to support U.N. probe of North Korea's human rights abuses
South Korea's decision to support a United Nations investigation into human rights abuses by North Korea signals that Seoul's new conservative administration is willing to pressure its neighbor on such issues — even if it hurts the chances for engagement.
JAPAN
Feb 28, 2013
Japan to demand that South Korea return stolen Buddhist statues
The government will demand that South Korea swiftly return two Buddhist statues that were stolen last year from a temple on the Nagasaki Prefecture island of Tsushima.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Feb 28, 2013
Possible human rights probe of North puts Seoul in bind
The U.N. human rights chief declared recently that it was time for a "long overdue" investigation into what she called unparalleled rights abuses in North Korea. The probe, unprecedented in scope, could help establish whether Pyongyang's leaders are committing crimes against humanity.
EDITORIALS
Feb 28, 2013
Challenges for President Park
Park Geun Hye, South Korea's first female president, has taken the reins of a country beset by stubborn internal as well as international problems.
Japan says Biden's description of nation as xenophobic is 'unfortunate'
The National Diet building in Tokyo
G7 eyes plan on U.S.-led $50 billion aid package for Ukraine
A local resident visits the Lychakiv cemetery in Lviv, Ukraine, on Thursday. The U.S. is in talks with close partners to lead a group of allies that would give as much as $50 billion in aid to Ukraine.
Japan drops to 70th in press freedom rankings
A businessman reads a newspaper outside a train station in Tokyo.
Japan’s record-low children population weighs on growth
The number of children 14 years old or younger fell for the 43rd straight year to around 14.01 million as of April 1.
Biden calls ally Japan ‘xenophobic’ along with rivals China and Russia
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks in Syracuse, New York, on April 25.
'Monster' Inoue ready to tear down Luis Nery in title defense at Tokyo Dome
Naoya Inoue (left) and Luis Nery following a pre-fight news conference in Yokohama on Saturday, two days ahead of their super bantamweight title fight.
Debate on constitutional revision at a standstill despite Kishida's pledges
With less than two months left before the conclusion of the current session of parliament, any possibility that Prime Minister Fumio Kishida can deliver constitutional reform before the end of his term as Liberal Democratic Party president in late September, as he has promised, appears remote.
Sapporo court ruling on Ainu fishing rights presents tough questions
A traditional Ainu preserved food called <i>satchep</i> (dried fish) being made at the government-run National Ainu Museum and Park, nicknamed Upopoy, in the town of Shiraoi, Hokkaido, on Dec. 25. The Sapporo District Court ruled last month that the Raporo Ainu Nation's rights as an Indigenous people did not extend to having an inherent right to fish for commercial reasons.
With eye on China, defense chiefs agree to bolster interoperability
From left: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Australian defense chief Richard Marles, Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara and Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro hold a joint news conference in Honolulu on Thursday.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.

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