TOKYO, March 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Four out of five South Koreans are distrustful of their island neighbors to the east, according to the results of a poll conducted by a Japanese news and communications organization. A total of 1,000 respondents each from South Korea, the United States, the U.K., Thailand, China and France participated [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean President Moon Jae-in and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe are set to hold bilateral talks Friday, amid a renewed dispute over Japan’s wartime sexual slavery of Korean women. The Moon-Abe summit will be held in PyeongChang, the host town of the 2018 Winter Olympic Games located some [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — President Moon Jae-in and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will hold a summit in PyeongChang, the alpine town that will host the upcoming Winter Olympics, the foreign ministry said Friday. Abe will fly to South Korea through Yangyang International Airport near PyeongChang to celebrate the Olympics, a ministry official [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean President Moon Jae-in and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe urged North Korea to give up its nuclear ambition Tuesday, saying the move will ensure a bright future for it. The renewed call came in a telephone conversation made by the South Korean leader to congratulate Abe on the outcome of the recent election in Japan. Abe’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party won 284 seats out ofthe total 465 seats at the House of Representatives, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean President Moon Jae-in is set to visit Russia next week for a bilateral summit with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and other heads of state, as well as a regional forum aimed at boosting economic cooperation in Northeast Asia that includes Russia’s Far East, an official from [...]
SEOUL, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The Abe administration once again reaffirmed its hardline Korea policy in a diplomatic paper released yesterday in which it made a territorial claim to the South Korean island of Dokdo, while urging the next South Korean government to honor the agreement reached with the now jailed former president Park’s [...]
SEOUL, April 18 (Korea Bizwire) – South Koreans voiced criticism over Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s recent remarks on dealing with possible refugees amid escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula, comments on social media showed Tuesday. During a parliamentary session Monday, Abe said Japan is working on contingency plans for a possible influx of refugees [...]
TOKYO/SEOUL, Apr. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Tokyo’s top envoy to South Korea returned to Seoul Tuesday, nearly three months after he was called in home due to diplomatic friction over a girl statue symbolizing the victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery of Korean women. The Japanese government recalled Amb. Yasumasa Nagamine in January in protest [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — A Japanese scholar on Thursday proposed the establishment of a memorial engraved with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s latest apology over Japan’s wartime sexual enslavement of Korean women. Haruki Wada, an emeritus professor at Tokyo University and expert in Korean history, made the proposal during a forum in Seoul as [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — President Park Geun-hye will meet with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe next week, Cheong Wa Dae said Wednesday, in the first bilateral summit between leaders of the two neighbors in more than three years. Park has so far shunned a bilateral meeting with Abe due to disputes over shared [...]