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Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol arrives at a court to attend a hearing to review his arrest warrant requested by special prosecutors in Seoul on July 9.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Dec 15, 2025
Yoon tried to provoke Pyongyang into armed aggression, prosecutor says
The ex-president¡¯s move was meant to create justification for the December 2024 martial law, special prosecutor Cho Eun-seok says.
The men's soccer teams of North Korea and Japan clash in the East Asian Football Championship in Tokyo in December 2017.
SOCCER
Mar 12, 2024
Japan-North Korea World Cup game to stay in Pyongyang, says JFA
The JFA said it had been informed that the game on March 26 would be played at the 50,000-capacity Kim Il Sung Stadium.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meets Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sept. 13.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 28, 2023
Mystery Russian plane in Pyongyang stokes concerns of arms deals
Data from FlightRadar24 indicates the plane returned to Russia on Thursday after having been on the ground in North Korea for about two days.
North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un (front right) exchanging farewell greetings with Russia's President Vladimir Putin (front left) at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia's Amur region on Thursday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 14, 2023
After Russia meeting, Putin accepts Kim¡¯s invite to North Korea
Among the results of this week¡¯s leaders¡¯ summit were Russian promises of help with North Korea¡¯s fledgling space program, Russian news agencies said.
People attend a mass rally denouncing the U.S. in Pyongyang on Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 27, 2023
North Korea, China and Russia mark Korean War anniversary
The celebrations come at a crucial time for Kim Jong Un as he seeks to ease up on pandemic border controls that slammed the brakes on his economy.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 24, 2023
¡®Unusual¡¯ level of aircraft maintenance seen in North Korea
North Korea has effectively sealed its borders since early 2020 as part of its drive to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, with all flights cancelled.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Mar 13, 2023
Seoul to bid for 2036 Games without Pyongyang, says mayor
Seoul will remain flexible to the idea of holding a few events in the Demilitarized Zone or Pyongyang if relations improve enough by that time.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 26, 2023
North Korea¡¯s Kim mobilizes young laborers in new housing plan
The plan begins despite a deepening food crisis in North Korea amid sanctions over its weapons programs and the fallout from COVID-19 lockdowns.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 23, 2022
¡®Not in this for the money¡¯: Why some families sue North Korea
Their civil litigation ¡ª often over physical mistreatment and abductions at the hands of North Korean authorities ¡ª is part of a quiet, yearslong search for justice.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 7, 2022
Kim Jong Un keeps aiming his missiles at this ¡®most hated rock¡¯
At about 850 meters in length, the island is small enough to show the U.S. and its allies that Kim can hit what he aims at.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 30, 2020
North Korea seeks economic boost amid COVID-19 and sanctions pain
The figures point to an accelerated need for Kim to come up with a new five year economic plan to survive the crisis.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 18, 2020
South Korean news source says North Korea has changed its foreign minister
North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho has been replaced, Seoul-based NK News reported Saturday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Jun 21, 2018
Crisis-plagued private Pyongyang university seeks revival after Trump-Kim summit
When the only private university in North Korea held a commencement in March, the school¡¯s American president wasn¡¯t there, blocked by Washington¡¯s ban on travel to the country.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jun 14, 2018
Summit with Trump plays well in Pyongyang as Kim boasts global rise
When Kim Jong Un made his first official trip outside North Korea in March, he slipped into China aboard an armored train and his countrymen didn¡¯t learn about it until he was safely home. Kim¡¯s excursion to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump was a much different story.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Apr 11, 2018
North Korea and Trump¡¯s dangerous perception gap on denuclearization
Washington¡¯s acknowledgment this week that Pyongyang is ready to discuss the ¡°denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula¡± may sound like a step toward ridding North Korea of its hard-won nuclear weapons, but experts and observers say such a move is extremely unlikely in the near-term and highlights a potentially...
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 2, 2018
Kim Jong Un and wife attend groundbreaking K-pop concert in Pyongyang
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his wife, Ri Sol Ju, were among the hundreds in Pyongyang on Sunday watching South Korean K-pop singers perform in the North for the first time in more than a decade as tensions between the two countries thaw.
EDITORIALS
Mar 8, 2018
An opening ¡ª nothing more ¡ª with North Korea
Talks with Pyongyang are welcome, but their goal must be the rollback and eventual elimination of North Korea¡¯s nuclear weapons program.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 19, 2018
Moon¡¯s approval rating drops amid Olympics furor over North Korea agreement
South Korean President Moon Jae-in¡¯s approval rating has fallen to a four-month low, a poll showed Friday, after a public backlash over a decision for South and North Korea to field a joint ice hockey team at next month¡¯s Winter Olympics.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 13, 2017
South Korea confirms traces of radioactive gas from North Korea¡¯s nuclear test
South Korea said on Wednesday traces of radioactive xenon gas were confirmed to be from a North Korean nuclear test earlier this month, but it was unable to conclude whether the test had been a hydrogen bomb as Pyongyang claimed.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 4, 2017
No red lines? China and North Korea
China has much to gain by strongly responding to North Korea¡¯s nuclear provocations.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
New ¡®Katsu Curry Index¡¯ aims to show how weak the yen really is
A CoCo Ichibanya curry house in Tokyo.
Mexican man arrested over attempt to smuggle some 200 lizards into Japan
Mexican alligator lizards seized by Tokyo Customs from a Mexican man who attempted to smuggle them into Japan on Saturday through Haneda Airport
Gut bacteria may be behind many of Â鶹´«Ã½ colorectal cancer cases
A Japanese research team found that a toxin produced by certain E. coli strains, colibactin, caused genetic mutations in nearly half of colorectal cancer cases studied
She is Russia¡¯s richest woman. Her business empire is going up in flames.
Tatyana Kim, the head and co-founder of Wildberries, speaks about Ukrainian drone attacks on the company's warehouses in the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, at an unidentified location, in this still image from a handout video released on July 31.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
Ikarigata closer to emulating older brother Fujinokawa than many think
The future Fujinokawa (third from left) and Ikarigata (right) compete against each other at ages 5 and 3, respectively.
Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
As Â鶹´«Ã½ concrete jungles sizzle, urban forestry offers an all-natural fix
People and birds find relief from the sun in Tokyo's Nakano Ward earlier this month. While experts agree that urban greening is crucial to mitigating the impact of climate change, trees are becoming even more scarce in Japanese cities.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
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Disaster relief workers Taichi Kato (left) and Seiji Yoshimura enter the collapsed living quarters at Kyuganji temple in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture.
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