In an unusual move, Seoul’s foreign minister visited Tokyo before Washington, as the Asian neighbors emphasized the ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Wednesday expressed his desire to maintain the "good" momentum in relations ...

Former Japanese Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide and South Korean President Lee Jae-myung have agreed that they will promote ...

In the United States and elsewhere, Korean cosmetics, or K-beauty for short, have dominated the trend. A craze for all-in-one ...

South Korea’s leading beverage company HiteJinro is launching Kirin Group’s alcohol brand Hyoketsu in South Korea for the ...

South Korea is unlikely to be affected by a powerful earthquake that struck off Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula on ...

When Japan did not reciprocate, the South Korean public turned against Mr. Lee, who went on to antagonize Tokyo by visiting a disputed set of islets in the sea between South Korea and Japan in 2012.

Japan's uncompromising stance means that South Korea's concessions are basically unilateral, Sneider says, "and they're hoping at some point the Japanese will join in.

On Sunday, South Korea, Japan and the U.S. held maritime drills involving the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier near the Korean Peninsula, their latest show of force against North Korea.

Japan and South Korea have long had disputes over the 1910-1945 Japanese colonization of the Korean Peninsula and atrocities during World War II, which included forced prostitution of “comfort ...

Countless others were killed. In just one day in 1919, the Japanese colonial police executed some 7,500 Korean protesters. Disputes over apologies and reparations—known in South Korea as “history ...