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S.Korea plans 'comfort women' museum
Kyodo News, Published on 11/07/2017
» SEOUL - South Korea's new gender equality and family minister said Monday a plan has been formed to establish a museum in Seoul to commemorate former Korean women forced into Japanese wartime brothels.
Myanmar operator rolls out 4G/LTE service
Kyodo News, Published on 19/06/2017
» YANGON - Myanmar's state-owned telecommunications operator MPT, collaborating with Japan's KDDI Corp and Sumitomo Corp, announced Monday the launch of ultrafast 4G/LTE mobile data service.
'Fair trade' in coconut oil changes life on small Indonesian island
Kyodo News, Published on 27/04/2017
» KOBE -- A "fair trade" offer by a Japanese woman to buy pure coconut oil from a small Indonesian island has changed the lives of the people there, who previously earned a living blast fishing reefs.
Japanese tourists flock to long-disputed Cambodian border temple
Kyodo News, Published on 06/04/2017
» PREAH VIHEAR - The ancient cliff-top temple that Cambodia and Thailand have fought over for more than a century has proved to be an unlikely hit with Japanese tourists.
Malaysian police enter NK embassy: local paper
Kyodo News, Published on 26/03/2017
» Malaysian police on Sunday entered the North Korean Embassy in Kuala Lumpur in connection with last month's murder of Kim Jong-nam, the estranged half-brother of North Korea leader Kim Jong Un, according to <i>China Press</i>, a Malaysian Chinese-language newspaper.
Japan perseveres six years after quake, nuclear disaster
Kyodo News, Published on 11/03/2017
» More than 120,000 people remain displaced after fleeing their hometowns in the three northeastern prefectures hardest-hit by the massive earthquake, tsunami and subsequent nuclear meltdown, as Japan marked the sixth anniversary of the natural disaster on Saturday.
3 of 4 N.Korea missiles reach Japan waters
Kyodo News, Published on 06/03/2017
» TOKYO/SEOUL - North Korea on Monday launched four ballistic missiles, three of which fell into Japan's exclusive economic zone in the Sea of Japan, prompting Tokyo to vow to counter Pyongyang's repeated provocations in cooperation with the international community.
Japan's emperor meets families of WWII occupiers in Vietnam
Kyodo News, Published on 03/03/2017
» HANOI - Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko met Thursday in Hanoi with Vietnamese family members of Japanese soldiers deployed in Southeast Asia during World War II.
Police urge suspects possibly at N. Korean embassy to come out
Kyodo News, Published on 23/02/2017
» KULA LUMPUR - Malaysia's police chief on Thursday urged two North Korean men, possibly hiding at the reclusive country's embassy in Kuala Lumpur, to come forward and assist with the ongoing investigation into last week's death of Kim Jong Nam.
Malaysia still waiting for Kim's kin to come forward
Kyodo News, Published on 21/02/2017
» KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia said Tuesday it is still waiting for the next of kin of Kim Jong Nam, the murdered half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, to claim his body.