September 22, 2020
SEOUL — South Korean public prosecutors have indicted without arrest lawmaker Yoon Mee-hyang over allegations that money donated to an organization to support former so-called comfort women was misu...
This has been an oddly quiet presidential election year. No doubt much of it has to do with the COVID-19 pandemic. Politics feed on what classical sociologist Emil Durkheim once called “collective e...
The end of the kafala sponsorship system that requires migrant workers to obtain their employer’s consent to change jobs and adoption of a nondiscriminatory minimum wage marks the beginning of a new...
On Nov. 3, 2020, Americans will go to the polls to vote in what is going to be the most consequential election in living memory. They will be asked to pass judgment on the first term of President Dona...
SHANGHAI/TOKYO — Elementary and middle school classes conducted in the Mongolian language have been reduced in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in northern China from September, while education ...
BOSTON (AP) — Two American men accused of smuggling Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn out of Japan while he was awaiting trial on financial misconduct charges can be extradited, a federal jud...
MOSCOW — Russia held military parades and other commemorative events in Sakhalin and the northern territories to mark the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II on Thursday.
The Soviet military...
ISTANBUL — The media and antigovernment groups in Turkey have been forced into silence regarding the Turkish government’s conversion of Hagia Sophia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Istanbul, back...
Inspur is leveraging cutting-edge technologies to protect endangered species and support ecological preservation. The company and Xishuangbanna National Nature Reserve have joined hands to develop a ...
A total of 172 countries, including Japan, have expressed interest in joining COVAX, a framework of nations that will jointly purchase and distribute vaccines for the new coronavirus, the World Health...
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, was pulled from a luxury yacht and arrested Thursday on allegations that he and three associates ripped off donors ...
Former U.S. presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter argued on Tuesday that Joe Biden has the experience and integrity to restore a pandemic-devastated America, as Democrats formally nominated Biden f...
Mauritius has arrested the captain of a Japanese bulk carrier that ran aground off its coast, causing a devastating oil spill in one of the world’s most pristine maritime environments, police said o...
BANGKOK — A Japanese manga artist’s illustrated guide on how to care for children’s mental health during the spread of coronavirus infections has been translated and is being used in schools amo...
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s younger brother, Robert Trump, a businessman known for an even keel that seemed almost incompatible with the family name, died Saturday night after being ...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The United States and South Korea will begin their annual joint military exercises this week, Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said Sunday. But a spreading coronavirus out...
SEOUL — South Korean President Moon Jae-in said in a speech Saturday that “the door is open for discussions” with Tokyo over litigation against Japanese companies by former wartime requisitioned...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council on Friday resoundingly defeated a U.S. resolution to indefinitely extend the U.N. arms embargo on Iran, with the Trump administration getting support...
SEOUL — South Korean prosecutors Thursday questioned Yoon Mee-Hyang, a lawmaker and former director of a support group for so-called comfort women in the country, on charges including embezzlement, ...
SEOUL — A private facility established to support former so-called comfort women in South Korea through donations it collected over the past five years has misappropriated almost all of the funds to...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel and the United Arab Emirates announced Thursday they are establishing full diplomatic relations in a U.S.-brokered deal that required Israel to halt its contentious plan to ...
This month marks the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, when humanity learned of the devastation a single nuclear bomb can unleash. The lingering suffering caused to the...
HANOI — As the current chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Vietnam has been frustrated by its inability to host face-to-face meetings amid the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. A f...
WASHINGTON — With the successful return to Earth of the SpaceX spacecraft Crew Dragon, the United States once again has its own means of manned space flights. The mission’s success also enables Am...
In May 2007, Lee Teng-hui approached reporters with a smile and spoke to them in fluent Japanese when visiting the Fukagawa area in Tokyo to look around places related to “Oku no Hosomichi” (The ...
TAIPEI — Former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui, who strove for the democratization of Taiwan, died at a Taipei hospital on Thursday, aged 97.
According to the hospital, Lee died from multiple organ...
TAIPEI — Former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui died from an illness on Thursday, aged 97.
Lee helped to instill a shared sense of identity in the people of Taiwan through democratization and laid t...
RIO DE JANEIRO — About 260 Chinese fishing boats have been spotted operating in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Ecuador, between that country’s mainland and its Galapagos Islands, a World Natur...
A grocery store that recently opened in Jalalabad, eastern Afghanistan, has been named after Tetsu Nakamura, a Japanese doctor who was killed by militants in the town in December 2019.
A local group ...
SEOUL ― South Korea has been stepping in to mediate the rocky denuclearization talks between the United States and North Korea, but Washington’s and Pyongyang’s current positions differ to the p...
SEOUL (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un placed the city of Kaesong near the border with South Korea under total lockdown over coronavirus concerns and declared a state of emergency to contain ...
Economic debate over the COVID-19 pandemic mostly revolves around two questions: First, how can the economy be protected while containing the spread of infections with the novel coronavirus? Second, h...
A Japanese head of a video production company in China has created a documentary about Wuhan, Hubei Province, the world’s first city seriously hit by the new coronavirus, and made it available for...
SAO PAULO (AP) — A thousand deaths a day.
Since late May, three months after Brazil’s first reported case of the coronavirus, it has recorded more than 1,000 daily deaths on average in a grueso...
The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump is intensifying its criticism of the regime led by the Communist Party of China. Exploring the context of such criticism will bring to the fore one W...
HONG KONG (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong residents turned up over the weekend to vote in an unofficial primary election held by the city’s pro-democracy camp as it gears up to field c...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump wore a mask during a visit to a military hospital on Saturday, the first time the president has been seen in public with the type of facial covering recomm...
BEIJING/HONG KONG — Five years ago Thursday, the administration of Chinese President Xi Jinping launched a sweeping crackdown on domestic human rights lawyers. Pressure continues to be piled on lawy...
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was tested for COVID-19 after having an X-ray of his lungs on Monday. He didn’t say whether he was showing symptoms of the new coronavirus.
B...
The Chinese military has escalated its threatening flights by fighter jets and other aircraft around Taiwan, actions believed to be aimed at testing the Taiwan military’s defense capability in case ...
BERLIN/BRUSSELS — At least eight European countries have lifted restrictions on entry from Japan, the Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. These eight countries; France, Italy, Greece, the Netherlands, Croa...
What is happening inside North Korea? Yomiuri Shimbun Correspondent Yujiro Okabe interviewed Koh Young-hwan, a former North Korean diplomat who defected to South Korea in 1991.
Okabe: How do you s...
SEOUL — Food shortages in North Korea have recently become more widespread, making the regime increasingly unstable, a former North Korean diplomat who defected to South Korea said in an interview w...
HONG KONG/BEIJING — Fearful of a crackdown, pro-democracy groups in Hong Kong announced one after another that they would disband following the passage Tuesday of the National Security Law that bans...
BEIJING / HONG KONG — The National Security Law passed Tuesday by the administration of Chinese President Xi Jinping includes a number of tricks that would mean Hong Kong has a “high degree of aut...
BANGKOK — People in Southeast Asia who want to come to Japan after obtaining the new residence status of “specified skilled worker” are being held back in their home countries due to the spread ...
Regarding the report that China passed its national security legislation for Hong Kong, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said at a news conference on Tuesday, “It is regrettable that the legis...
HONG KONG (Reuters) — China’s parliament passed national security legislation for Hong Kong on Tuesday, the city’s Cable TV reported, setting the stage for the most radical change to the form...
If you’re unsure about the best business venture, consider rearing ostriches, as these have the potential to yield healthy economic returns. It’s not as expensive as some people think, and almost ...
SEOUL — South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s foreign policy toward the United States is at a crossroads. North Korea — seeking economic sanctions relief — has been pulling various levers t...
PARIS (Reuters) - The Eiffel Tower on Thursday welcomed its first visitors for three months - but with elevators still off-limits, they faced a long climb to sample its breathtaking views.
Shut dow...
BEIJING/TAIPEI — China and Taiwan have reacted sharply against a Japanese local municipality’s move to rename an area covering the Senkaku Islands in Okinawa Prefecture. “It is a provocation ...
BEIJING (AP) — China plans to establish a special bureau in Hong Kong to investigate and prosecute crimes considered threatening to national security, the state-run news agency said Saturday, as i...
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s government confirmed on Friday that the country has risen above 1 million confirmed coronavirus cases, second only to the United States.
The country’s health ministr...
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s government confirmed on Friday that the country has risen above 1 million confirmed coronavirus cases, second only to the United States.
The country’s health ministr...
SEOUL—Tensions on the Korean Peninsula have quickly escalated, as North Korea on Wednesday buttressed its provocative stance by revealing four “military action plans” and the South Korean milit...
Jean Kennedy Smith, who was the last surviving sibling of President John F. Kennedy and who as a U.S. ambassador played a key role in the peace process in Northern Ireland, has died, relatives said T...
Recently in Beijing I saw something I haven’t seen in a long time, it was a street vendor pulling a cart, selling fruit. Bright-eyed local housewives and other passersby gathered around. Cherries w...
U.S. President Donald Trump’s idiosyncratic behavior is nothing new. His patterns of speech and action have been especially odd since the outbreak of huge protests over the killing of a black man by...
The world is in a dire crisis due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. East Asia, Europe and North America seem to have got past the peak of the first wave of infections, but the disease is still spread...
SEOUL — North Korea’s blowing up of a liaison office between the two Koreas near the North’s border town of Kaesong on Tuesday was apparently aimed at exerting pressure on the administration of ...
North Korea’s foreign currency reserves could dry up as early as 2023 due to economic sanctions mainly by the U.N. Security Council and the United States, according to analysis by sources close to t...
For the fourth time in its history, the Oscars are being postponed. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the ABC Television Network said Monday that the 93rd Academy Awards will now b...
Global cases of the novel coronavirus reached over 8 million on Monday, as infections surge in Latin America and the United States and China grapple with fresh outbreaks. The United States still lea...
SEOUL — South Korea on Sunday convened an emergency security meeting and urged North Korea to uphold reconciliation agreements, hours after the North threatened to demolish a liaison office and tak...
ATLANTA — Atlanta’s police chief resigned Saturday hours after a black man was fatally shot by an officer in a struggle following a field sobriety test. Authorities said the slain man had grabbed...
SEOUL — The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un threatened military action against South Korea as she bashed Seoul on Saturday over declining bilateral relations and its inability to...
The Chinese government has proposed an IT-based urban development model using data to track citizens as an international standard, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. The proposal is based on its expe...
BEIJING — The administration of Chinese President Xi Jinping is working on a law revision that would allow the China Coast Guard — which has repeatedly intruded into the Japanese territorial wate...
SEOUL — A South Korean independent lawmaker proposed a bill to its National Assembly on Monday to resolve a lawsuit filed by former laborers from the Korean Peninsula.
The bill was scrapped in May...
