SADO, Japan (AP) — South Korea commemorated wartime Korean forced laborers at Japan’s Sado gold mines in a ceremony Monday, a day after boycotting a similar event organized by Japan, as tensions over ...

When the leaders of China, Japan, and South Korea last met, in May 2024, observers viewed the meeting with a sense of relief. Japan and South Korea were emerging from one of the darkest periods in ...

Police said Wednesday that a set of bones recovered at a wartime mine in Japan are human remains, and a Japanese group helping search for the remains said they are certain to belong to about 180 ...

Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani arrives at the prime minister's office in Tokyo Thursday, Oct. 31, 2024. (Kyodo News via AP) TOKYO (AP) — Japan' s Defense Minister Gen Nakatani was welcomed ...

SADO, Japan — Japanese officials on Sunday paid tribute to workers at the country’s Sado Island Gold Mines but offered no apology over Japan’s brutal wartime use of Korean forced laborers, ...

The period from the inauguration of Yoon Suk-yeol as president of South Korea in May 2022 to the astonishing events of this month saw a remarkable improvement in relations between Japan and South ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Japan’s outgoing prime minister and his South Korean counterpart underscored the need to strengthen cooperation between their nations, as U.S. President Donald Trump’s ...

On August 23, South Korean President Lee Jae-myung visited Japan for a summit meeting with Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru, which produced the first joint press release by leaders of the two neighbors ...

As North Korea continues to advance its nuclear capabilities along with long-range missiles and China’s potential invasion of Taiwan, along with U.S. military responses, dominates discussions on Far ...

The rejuvenated relationship between South Korea and Japan, crucial for trilateral US–South Korea–Japan security cooperation, rests upon a wobbly foundation of contentious historical grievances.