All posts tagged "Japan"

  • Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivers a speech at a ceremony to mark the 50th anniversary of normalizing relations between Japan and South Korea, hosted by South Korean Embassy in Tokyo Monday, June 22, 2015. South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se attended the ceremony. (Yoshikazu Tsuno/Pool Photo via AP)
    Japan PM Abe vows effort for improved ties with S. Korea

    TOKYO, June 22 (Yonhap) — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Monday he wants to make concerted efforts with President Park Geun-hye for improved relations between the two countries. “I would like to improve and develop ties,...

    • Posted June 22, 2015
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  • Glendale's comfort woman statue (Yonhap)
    Former Korean ‘comfort woman’ prepares lawsuit against Japan in US court

    A South Korean comfort woman is preparing to file a lawsuit against the Japanese government, Prime Minister Abe Shinzo and about 10 Japanese corporations, including Mitsubishi and Sankei Shimbun, for a sum of $20 million in the...

    • Posted June 19, 2015
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  • South Korean President Park Geun-hye, right, shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, left, as US President Barack Obama looks on before their trilateral meeting at the US Ambassador's Residence in the Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, March 25, 2014. (AP)
    [WSJ Archive] 50th Anniversary of Normalization of Japan-South Korea Ties

      —  Japan and South Korea will mark 50 years of renewed bilateral ties next week. “Celebrate” would probably be an overstatement. While South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se will visit Japan to mark...

    • Posted June 18, 2015
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    S. Korean cars earn top quality rankings: JD Power

    By Brian Han Automobile manufacturers in South Korea can now call themselves the makers of the highest quality cars according to the latest report by J.D. Powers. The automotive research firm bases their findings primarily on U.S....

    • Posted June 18, 2015
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  • Glendale's comfort woman statue (Yonhap)
    Japan fails to attend court hearing on sex slaves

    SEOUL, June 15 (Yonhap) — A representative from Japan on Monday failed to attend the first conciliation hearing in Seoul on the country’s enslavement of Korean women for sex during World War II. Twelve Korean former sex...

    • Posted June 15, 2015
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  • People watch a live television program airing South Korean President Park Geun-hye's New Year's press conference at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, Monday, an. 12, 2015. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
    Park says considerable progress made with Japan on sex slaves

    SEOUL, June 12 (Yonhap) — President Park Geun-hye has said “considerable progress” has been made with Japan on the issue of former South Korean sex slaves for Japan’s World War II soldiers, according to an interview posted...

    • Posted June 12, 2015
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  • University of Tokyo's honorary professor Haruki Wada (front row, second from left) and other Japanese scholars urge Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to apologize. (Yonhap)
    281 Japanese scholars urge Abe to offer apology for history

    TOKYO, June 8 (Yonhap) — Hundreds of Japanese pundits urged their Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Monday to offer his own apology for Japan’s wartime crimes and atrocities. The move comes a little over a month after Abe...

    • Posted June 8, 2015
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