National Affairs
Int'l symposium in Seoul discusses developing Korea-Japan ties
Lauren Richardson, a professor at Australian National University (second from left), on Dec. 9 speaks at a news conference held at the Westin Chosun Seoul the day before ...
Dec 10,2019
Cheong Wa Dae denies 'distorted' Japanese announcement on GSOMIA
Senior Presidential Secretary for Public Communication Yoon Do Han on Nov. 25 said, "This is the only truth" in denying an announcement by the Japanese government and med...
Nov 26,2019
Korea conditionally suspends termination of military pact with Japan
Kim You-geun, secretariat of the National Security Council, on Nov. 22 announces the government's decision to conditionally halt the termination of the General Security o...
Nov 23,2019
Korea-Japan legal group issues statement on forced labor victims
Park Chan-un, head of the Humans Rights Law Association of Korea, on Nov. 20 delivers a statement on compensating forced labor victims during a Korean-Japan legal group's...
Nov 21,2019
'Civic society cooperation is key to improving Korea-Japan ties'
Lee Young-chae, a professor at Keisen University in Tokyo, says people-to-people exchange and collaboration between Koreans and Japanese can help thaw bilateral relations...
Nov 14,2019
Japan civic groups back court ruling favoring forced laborers
(Left) Two Japanese civic organizations on Oct. 30 issued the joint statement titled "For the Immediate Recovery of Human Rights for the Forced Labor Victims." (Righ...
Nov 01,2019
Documents on Japan's use of forced labor made public
The National Archives of Korea on Oct. 31 made public original records on Japan's wartime use of forced Korean labor kept by the Japanese Government General of Korea duri...
Nov 01,2019
"Coolheaded manner, diplomatic network needed to settle Korea-Japan conflict"
Sejong University professor Yuji Hosaka, a leading expert in Korea-Japan relations based in Seoul, has written a book on Japan's Abe administration and the extreme right ...
Oct 14,2019
'US must help Korea and Japan in interpretation of history'
By Yoon Sojung An op-ed piece published on Sept. 23 by The New York Times said the latest conflict between Korea and Japan stems from "the Washington-brokered 1965 treaty...
Oct 11,2019
German professor blasts Japan's attitude toward war crimes
West German Chancellor Willy Brandt on Dec. 7, 1970, kneels in front of a memorial for Jewish Holocaust victims in Warsaw, Poland, and apologizes for Germany's crimes aga...
Sep 25,2019