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 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Among the Japanese individuals that were reported by the Korean press for making thoughtless remarks during the past 10 years, Shinzo Abe, the Japanese prime minister ranked No.1 in terms of the number of mentions. Abe has made seemingly careless remarks about delicate issues that created a conflict between [...]
GWANGJU, South Korea, Jun. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A dozen Korean victims of Japan’s wartime sex slavery said Tuesday they will take Japan to court in the U.S. unless Tokyo apologizes by the end of this month for the atrocities done to them. The 12, including Yoo Hee-nam and Kang Il-chul, plan to lodge a [...]
SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Criticisms abound on the lack of South Korea’s diplomacy as the United States and Japan hurry to enhance their bilateral alliance and Seoul shuns Tokyo over history disputes. South Korea has for decades maintained close three-way security ties not only with its ally, the U.S., but with Japan, South [...]
SEOUL, May 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Professor Seo Kyung-Duk has placed an advertisement on Facebook which speaks about his arguments against Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s claim on April 29 at a US Congress speech that growth in Korea, Taiwan, ASEAN countries and China resulted from Japan’s efforts to make capital and technology investments in [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of victims of Japan’s war crimes blasted the United States Wednesday for inviting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to address its Congress despite his refusal to apologize for his country’s past wrongdoing. Korean women who were forced into sexual slavery during World War II called the invitation [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The top U.S. diplomat here Tuesday sympathized with South Korea’s concerns over Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s reluctance to repent on its past militarism. Mark Lippert, U.S. ambassador to South Korea, was quoted as saying by informed sources that he agreed with Rep. Na Kyung-won on South Korea’s concerns [...]
“Apology is not a shameful thing. Japan’s past invasion of other nations itself is a ‘fact,’ regardless of disputes over details. Japan should admit what it did and apologize for that until other countries affected say ‘it’s enough.’” “Northeast Asia is in a big power shift with the rise of China and South Korea. There [...]
“Despite our government’s repeated warnings, the Japanese government yesterday carried out the provocation of reviewing and passing middle school textbooks that distort, reduce and omit the historical facts and today repeated the historically regressive move of passing through the Cabinet a Diplomatic Bluebook containing unjust claims regarding the issues of Dokdo and the victims of [...]
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The United States strongly supports academic freedom, the State Department said Sunday, as history scholars criticize Japan for pressuring an American textbook publisher to change the description of Tokyo’s sexual enslavement of Asian women during World War II. A group of American history scholars have issued a protest statement denouncing Japan’s [...]