President Moon Jae-in has decided not to attend the Tokyo Olympics. A summit, even if it was held, wouldn’t accomplish much, and a recent inappropriate comment from a Japanese diplomat based in Seoul played a part in his...
Korea is holding out to the last-minute for a leaders summit with Japan ahead of the Summer Olympics despite Tokyo remaining unresponsive.
President Moon Jae-in has issued an ultimatum to Japan, saying he will consider a meeting with Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga at the Olympics only if a substantial agenda is set.
With two weeks left before the opening of the Tokyo Olympics, it's still possible Korean President Moon Jae-in will make a last-minute visit to Japan — and possibly turn around miserable relations between the neighbors.
The Blue House said Tuesday that no decision has been made on whether President Moon Jae-in will attend the Tokyo Olympics later this month after Japanese media reported that the Korean leader had conveyed intentions to visit Japan.
Recently, a friend told me an interesting stat. In Korea, 80 percent of the suspects in criminal cases deny charges, while in Japan 80 percent of suspects confess. Why? The friend claimed that as Koreans have a self-centered...
Tokyo pulled the plug on a meeting between Korean President Moon Jae-in and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on the sidelines of the Group of Seven (G7) summit, according to diplomatic sources Monday.
Seoul’s intelligence chief Park Jie-won met with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga Wednesday in Tokyo to discuss improving relations between the two countries facing ongoing strained ties.
“I took new drugs, and treatment went well,” said former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in a YouTube video on April 27. He resigned from office in September 2020 due to ulcerative colitis, and he said he got better after...
It may be presumptuous to suddenly give advice to the prime minister of another country, but I want to politely write my opinion as I learned an important life lesson from the U.S.-Japan summit. After watching Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s visit...
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