It underscores a wider strategic calculus by Beijing, which is shaped by tensions with Japan and the US. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

TOKYO (AP) — Japan lodged a complaint Monday over a South Korean ship that was conducting a marine survey in waters near Japanese-claimed islands controlled by Seoul. Government spokesperson Hirokazu Matsuno said it was “totally unacceptable” that a ...

SEOUL, June 16 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Jae-myung on Monday called for South Korea and Japan to join hands for a better future, casting the two neighbors as important partners bound to work together amid a rapidly changing global environment. Lee made the ...

The upcoming state visit of South Korean President Lee Jae Myung to China marks a carefully choreographed moment in Asian geopolitics — one shaped as muc...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Less than a month before leaving office, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visited Seoul and reaffirmed his sympathy for the suffering of Koreans during Japan’s colonial rule, as he and his South Korean counterpart Friday ...

SEOUL, Dec 9 (Reuters) - A South Korean court ruling in favor of a group of 16 women who were forced to work in Japanese wartime brothels was confirmed on Saturday by Japan's decision not to appeal the verdict, Seoul's foreign ministry said. An appellate ...

A statue symbolizing a wartime sex slave is displayed near the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Jan. 8, 2021. A South Korean court on Friday ordered Japan to financially compensate 12 South Korean women forced to work as sex slaves for ...

SEOUL, Jan. 8 (UPI) --A South Korean court ordered Japan to pay compensation to 12 so-called comfort women who were used as sex slaves during World War II in a landmark ruling issued Friday that is likely to inflame tensions between the East Asian neighbors.

SEOUL — A South Korean court Wednesday rejected a claim by South Korean sexual slavery victims and their relatives who sought compensation from the Japanese government over their wartime sufferings. The Seoul Central District Court based its decision on ...

China has banned exports of some rare earth elements and other items to Japan that could be used for military purposes, straining already tense relations between the two countries following the Japanese prime minister’s recent remarks on Taiwan.