Former Japanese PM Fumio Kishida said that South Korea and Japan have become partners that can grow together and help ...

A U.S. naval expedition sent to open relations with Korea went awry after U.S. forces fired on overmatched Korean troops.

President Lee Jae Myung, left, and first lady Kim Hea Kyung receive flowers from children during a luncheon meeting with the Korean community in Japan at a hotel in Tokyo on Aug. 23. [JOINT PRESS ...

SEOUL, May 26 (Yonhap) -- Chongryong, the largest organization of pro-Pyongyang ethnic Koreans in Japan, has stripped all references to unification on the Korean Peninsula from its rules, signaling an ...

On June 9, Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru had his first official conversation with newly elected South Korean President Lee Jae-myung. In a statement, the Japanese government noted that Ishiba ...

South Korean President Lee Jae-myung and Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae at their summit meeting in Nara Prefecture, Japan, Jan. 13, 2026. Credit: Prime Minister’s Office of Japan Earlier this ...

TOKYO — A Japanese court on Monday held North Korea responsible for the human rights violations of four plaintiffs lured to the North by Pyongyang's postwar false promise of living in “paradise on ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - When the now elderly man left Japan on a Soviet ship in 1960 for North Korea, he thought he was headed to the promised land. In reality, he survived 47 years there thanks only to $1 ...

In a January 26 ruling, a Japanese district court held the North Korean government liable for grave human rights violations against Koreans and Japanese citizens lured to North Korea through its ...