GlobalTalk 21

Down and out Yubari, the bankrupt Hokkaido city immortalized by NYT elegist Normitsu Onishi , is selling naming rights left and right. Firs...

The Kan Statement on the eve of the 100th anniversary of Imperial Japan’s annexation of the Korean peninsula has passed the Yomiuri test—wh...

According to this Kyodo report courtesy of the Japanese tabloid Sponichi , the South Korean equivalent of the Nielsen TV ratings reached 2...

Sixty or so members out of the ninety-five on the losing side of the DPJ leadership election, including Katsuya Okada himself, held a party ...

The Japanese government prepares to shoot down the North Korean ballistic projectile if it looks like it will fall on Japanese territory, an...

“Mr. Ozawa asks, ‘What do think about Tsushima?’, so I’m like, ‘I’m very worried about Tsushima now. It’s likely to be bought up by the won...

I’m usually far more interested in figuring out what the Japanese authorities are up to than in trying to tell them what to do. It’s better ...

Recently, North Korea has been making noises about U.S. plans for all-out war and throwing verbal stink bombs at South Korea’s Lee Myung-bak...

Ryang Yong Gi is a 27-year-old North Korean, one of the hundreds of thousands of Koreans who have grown up in Japan as permanent residents h...

I’ll have to issue a corrective regarding my previous post on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit regarding a possible meeting with ...

This is the summer holiday season, when the regular Tuesday Cabinet sessions and the subsequent press briefings customarily held by attendin...

Q: In South Korea, the leadership there is very concerned and upset about the U.S. Agency for Geographic Names changing the designation of a...

The following is an excerpt from the July 28 U.S. State Department press briefing by Gonzalo R. Gallegos, Acting Deputy Spokesman: QUESTION...

You win some, you lose some; how it looks depends on where you’re coming from— Tokyo , or... Toronto ? Incidentally, I can’t reach the GEOne...

This post is a sequel to this Takeshima/Dokto post . The Chosun Ilbo headline Seoul ‘Could Leave Tokyo in the Cold at Six-Party Talks’ doe...

The other day, I heard a South Korean academic give a talk, where he touched on the most recent flare-up over the small uninhabitable island...

The eponymous, multilingual Sun Bin has yet another East China Sea post , this time on the South Korea angle . Mapped, complete with coordi...

Yesterday, the Chief Cabinet Secretary made the announcement, later confirmed by the Foreign Minister , that the North Korean authorities ha...

Glocom has kindly posted my commentary on Jim Hoagland’s op-ed on President’s Hu’s visit. Ross thinks that I’ve gone overboard with the “th...

It’s on the CNN , WaPo , and NYT (but not the BBC ) websites under the headline Japanese Officials Visit War Shrine . According to the AP ...