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Korea's response to Japan's export restriction
Korea's response to Japan's export restriction
- Int'l symposium in Seoul discusses developing Korea-Japan ties
- Dec 10,2019
- 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 ...
- Cheong Wa Dae denies 'distorted' Japanese announcement on GSOMIA
- Nov 26,2019
- 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...
- Korea conditionally suspends termination of military pact with Japan
- Nov 23,2019
- 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...
- Korea-Japan legal group issues statement on forced labor victims
- Nov 21,2019
- 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...
- 'Civic society cooperation is key to improving Korea-Japan ties'
- Nov 14,2019
- 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...
- Japan civic groups back court ruling favoring forced laborers
- Nov 01,2019
- (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...
- Documents on Japan's use of forced labor made public
- Nov 01,2019
- 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...
- "Coolheaded manner, diplomatic network needed to settle Korea-Japan conflict"
- Oct 14,2019
- 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 ...
- 'US must help Korea and Japan in interpretation of history'
- Oct 11,2019
- 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...
- German professor blasts Japan's attitude toward war crimes
- Sep 25,2019
- 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...