Japan-South Korea relations

21 May 2013

Academics and the Japanese government have dismissed the complaint by South Korea's defence ministry about US Forces Korea referring to the body of water between the Korean peninsula and Japan as...

3:35AM

Osaka mayor to apologise to former wartime 'comfort women'

17 May 2013

The maverick mayor of Osaka will meet former wartime sex slaves, reports said yesterday after he pledged to apologise to them, although insisting that Japan's soldiers were not unique in...

1:46AM

Abe training jet photo sparks outrage in South Korean media

16 May 2013

Major South Korean newspapers splashed a photo of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in a military trainer jet on their front pages yesterday, saying it was a reminder of Japan's colonial-era...

2:58AM

Park's decision to visit China to be seen as snub by Japan

15 May 2013

There has been no official comment from the Japanese government about the decision by Park Geun-hye, the new South Korean president, to make China her first diplomatic port of call in Asia.

1:43AM

How they see it

28 Apr 2013

We have to wonder what the Shinzo Abe administration has in mind when it comes to Japan's strained relations with its neighbours. Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso and two cabinet members visited war...

5:02AM

Shinzo Abe should stay away from Yasukuni shrine

24 Apr 2013

Japanese politicians have a simple enough calculation when deciding whether to honour the country's war dead at the Yasukuni Shrine. To go is an act of nationalism that will win points with right-...

3:14AM

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Opinion

Tom Holland

Attempts to diversify China's reserves have been a disaster

4:45AM

Howard Winn

China is like the EU; provinces are its member states

5:26AM

Scholar calls reaction of South Korea and China to Japanese textbooks childish

A Japanese scholar has branded as "childish" the reactions in South Korea and China to new school textbooks that describe disputed islands as Japanese territory. Japan's Education Ministry on...

2:48AM

South Korean sex slaves sue Japanese band Scramble over 'prostitutes' tag

A CD containing a song with the allegedly defamatory lyrics by the band Scramble was mailed last week - along with a translated text - to a shelter that cares for so-called comfort women in...

3:45AM

Japan PM wants ‘good relationship’ with S. Korea

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Friday he wanted a strong relationship with South Korea, which responded angrily over a rally in Japan against Seoul’s control of a set of islands.

11:36AM

SOUTH KOREA

New South Korean, Japanese leaders seek fresh start

South Korean president-elect Park Geun-hye met on Friday with the envoy of Japan’s new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, as Seoul and Tokyo sought a new start to a relationship dogged by bitter...

5:46PM

EAST ASIA

South Korean concerns ahead of Japanese election

South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan warned yesterday of signs of a rightward shift in Japanese politics, including an increasingly aggressive stance on territorial issues.

2:42AM

Japanese media calls for stronger government to handle China, South Korea rows

Japan needs a strong government to handle rows with China and South Korea as the world is losing patience with the county’s revolving door politics, a major daily said on Sunday.

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