Japan may delay listing mine with Korean forced laborers as Unesco site

Japan may delay its plan to recommend the Sado mine, where Koreans were forced to do labor, as a Unesco World Heritage site, according to local media reports in Tokyo. “The government intends to put off recommending the Sado Gold Mine as a...

2022-01-20

Affinity Equity flipping Burger King in Korea and Japan

Burger King Korea and Burger King Japan are for sale, according to a report in Nikkei Asia.

2022-01-19

Candidate Lee says he has less faith in Kim Jong-un

Ruling Democratic Party (DP) presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung said he isn't depending on the North Korean leader to denuclearize, distancing himself from the Moon Jae-in administration.

2022-01-12

'Comfort women' activists try to stop far-right counter-rallies

Activists, advocating for the victims of Japan's wartime sexual slavery by holding weekly rallies near the Japanese Embassy in central Seoul, submitted a petition to the National Human Right Commission of Korea on Wednesday, requesting they...

2022-01-05

Another trigger of concerns

Japan chose Sado Mine, a site of forced labor for Koreans during the Japanese colonial period, as a candidate to be recognized as Unesco World Heritage. Tokyo will file for a review on Feb. 1 to win the Unesco designation in...

2021-12-30

DP's Lee proposes Korea-Japan leaders summit

Ruling Democratic Party (DP) presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung proposed an early Korea-Japan summit to Japanese Ambassador Koichi Aiboshi, according to Kim Joon-hyung, former head of Korea National Diplomatic Academy, who joined a...

2021-12-27

Nuclear no-no

Civic group members protest against Japan's plan to discharge contaminated water from the defunct Fukushima nuclear power plant, in front of the Japanese Embassy in Jongno District, central Seoul, on Thursday.

2021-12-23

Blinken emphasizes commitment to Indo-Pacific, alliances

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken emphasized the American commitment to the Indo-Pacific, highlighting the American alliances with regional powers including Australia, Japan and Korea during his address at the Universitas Indonesia in Jakarta...

2021-12-15

TXT is among GQ’s Men of the Year in Japan

Boy band Tomorrow X Together (TXT) was included on a list of GQ Men of the Year 2021 by fashion magazine GQ Japan, according to Big Hit Music Thursday. “GQ Japan annually singles out artists who have played an active role in the Japanese music...

2021-11-25

Chinese envoy butters up Korea, Japan ahead of Beijing Olympics

Liu Xiaoming, Chinese special envoy on Korean Peninsula affairs, stressed the importance of Chinese-Korean-Japanese trilateral ties on his Twitter account Tuesday, in what appears to part of a growing movement by Chinese officials to tone down...

2021-11-24

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