South Korea on Friday strongly protested Japan's renewed claim to its easternmost islets of Dokdo after Japan's top diplomat described them as part of his country's territory. Earlier in the day, Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya reiterated Tokyo's territorial claim over the islets in South

South Korean president Yoon's declaration of martial law not only stress tested South Korea's democracy, it may also contribute to destabilising the fragile US-Japan-South Korea trilateral.

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Choi Sung-ryong, whose father was executed by North Korea, wants to pressure a pro-Pyongyang association in Tokyo over the abductees.

With so much still up in the air, observers said that Seoul could move closer to Beijing and further from Tokyo, even putting the trilateral South Korea-Japan-US partnership in jeopardy. However, the shared security threat represented by North Korea was ...

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has become the country’s first leader to be indicted, less than two weeks after he was the first to be detained

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan is monitoring developments in South Korea with "particular and grave" concerns, the top government spokesman said Wednesday, following the detention of President Yoon Suk Yeol over his declaration of martial law in December.

The jailed president Yoon Suk Yeol, who had been holed up in his presidential compound for weeks after issuing a martial law decree last month, now faces rebellion charges punishable by the death penalty or life in prison.

Japan's unbeaten Naoya Inoue retained his undisputed world super-bantamweight titles on Friday in style by knocking out South Korean rank outsider Kim Ye-joon in the fourth round in Tokyo.

South Korea's industry ministry said Friday it has agreed with Japan to work closely to ensure the European Union's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism does not act as a trade barrier. The two countries discussed the agenda during a meeting in Seoul amid efforts to expand cooperation in industrial environmental policies,

Goading boxing superstar Naoya Inoue proved to be the wrong move. The unbeaten Japanese fighter was invited to take a shot by overmatched South Korean opponent Ye Joon Kim and Inoue responded with a d

Investors dumped technology stocks in premarket trading Monday, sending U.S. indexes sharply lower after Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek demonstrated a chatbot that it says rivals the top versions from OpenAI and Google for a fraction of the cost.