投稿者: Justin McCurry in Tokyo and agencies
Agriculture ministry drawn in to row after state media prompts backlash with claims that China leads global kimchi industrySocial media users in China and South Korea are embroiled in another row, this time over the provenance of kimchi, the fermented …
North Korean man was seen crossing barbed wire before being picked up in the demilitarised zone South Korea has detained a North Korean man who it believed was trying to defect by crossing the heavily armed land border separating the two countries.The …
Analysts say emotional speech suggests Kim is feeling pressures on his leadership linked to Covid and nuclear sanctionsThe North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, shed tears as he issued a rare apology for his failure to guide the country through tumultuous …
Ruler cedes some powers to sibling, according to Seoul, who will be responsible for relations with US and South KoreaThe influential younger sister of the North Korean ruler, Kim Jong-un, has become his de facto second-in-command with responsibility fo…
More than a dozen ‘black rain’ plaintiffs died during legal battle to prove people living further away also suffered radiation exposure in 1945A court in Japan has for the first time recognised dozens of people who were exposed to radioactive “black ra…
Pair of bronze statues shows a male figure kneeling and bowing before a ‘comfort woman’ in South KoreaJapan has reacted angrily to statues in South Korea that appear to depict the Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, prostrating himself before a young …
Decision raises possibility Japan would create its own first-strike capability, which some say violates its constitutionJapan has scrapped plans to buy a multibillion-dollar missile defence system from the US that was intended to boost its ability to c…
Thirty-six people died in atrocity that is Japan’s deadliest blaze since 2001Police in Japan have arrested the man suspected of carrying out an arson attack last year that killed 36 people, after officers waited 10 months for him to be treated for seri…
North Korean state media has released pictures purportedly showing the leader attending the opening of a fertiliser factory The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, has appeared in public for the first time in almost three weeks, according to state media,…
North Korean state media has released pictures purportedly showing the leader attending the opening of a fertiliser factory The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, has appeared in public for the first time in almost three weeks, according to state media,…
Sensitive creatures are starting to hide when keepers walk past, as a result of the lack of visitorsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageWhen the garden eels at a Tokyo aquarium remove their heads from the sand, they are usually …
North Korean leader has not been seen in public for days and reports said he had undergone heart surgerySouth Korea and China have played down speculation that Kim Jong-un is seriously ill, after a Seoul-based website reported that the North Korean lea…
Governments ban entry to foreigners and announce quarantine measures as Donald Trump says keeping US deaths to 100,000 would be ‘very good’Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageJapan and South Korea are poised to tighten restricti…
South Korea reports 599 new cases and Indonesia confirms its first infections Latest coronavirus updatesThe global death toll from the coronavirus outbreak exceeded 3,000 on Monday as South Korea reported almost 500 new cases of the disease and a secon…