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Japan’s legacy of forced labor haunts ties with neighbors

TOKYO For years, Yeom Chan-soon was haunted by the cracking sound of a leather belt eating into the flesh of a fellow Korean mine worker being punished for trying to escape from forced labor in Japan. That dark chapter in Japan’s history, when hundreds of thousands of people were brought from the Korean Peninsula and other Asian nations to work…

Azar meets with Taiwan President Tsai on breakthrough visit

TAIPEI, Taiwan U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar met with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen on Monday during the highest-level visit by an American Cabinet official since the break in formal diplomatic ties between…

China

China sentences 3rd Canadian to death on drug charges

BEIJING China has sentenced a third Canadian citizen to death on drug charges amid a steep decline in relations between the two countries. The Guangzhou Municipal Intermediate Court announced Xu Weihong’s penalty on Thursday and said an…

North Korea

Kim directs aid to North Korean town under virus lockdown

SEOUL, South Korea North Korean leader Kim Jong Un directed his government agencies to act immediately to stabilize the livelihoods of residents in a city locked down over coronavirus concerns, state media reported Thursday. North Korea…

Japan

Hiroshima survivor recalls working on tram after A-bomb

HIROSHIMA, Japan Tetsuko Shakuda was a frightened 14-year-old when she resumed her work as a conductor on a tram line in the devastated city of Hiroshima, just three days after the atomic bomb exploded 75 years ago, badly damaging the…

Northeast Asia

Former president who brought direct elections to Taiwan dies

TAIPEI, Taiwan Former Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui, who brought direct elections and other democratic changes to the self-governed island despite missile launches and other fierce saber-rattling by China, has died. He was 97. Taipei…

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