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South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, left, shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida before their meeting in New York on Sept. 21, 2022. South Korea’s president wants Japan to join his efforts to improve ties frayed over Tokyo’s past colonial rule, saying there is an increasing need for greater bilateral cooperation because of North Korean nuclear threats and global supply chain challenges. (Ahn Jung-won/Yonhap via AP, File)

South Korea’s leader says Seoul-Tokyo ties key to address North Korea, supply chains

By Hyung-jin Kim and Kim Tong-hyung - Associated Press

A scoreboard is seen after finishing the first round Pool B game between the South Korea and China at the World Baseball Classic (WBC) at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan, Monday, March 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

South Korea sets record with 22-2 rout of China at WBC

Associated Press

People pass by a statue symbolizing forced Korean workers, in Seoul Monday, March 6, 2023. South Korea says it’ll raise local civilian funds to compensate Koreans who won damages in lawsuits against Japanese companies that enslaved them during World War II. (Kyodo News via AP)

South Korea pushes to end Japan disputes over forced laborers

By Kim Tong-Hyung and Hyung-Jin Kim - Associated Press

This image made from video broadcasted by North Korea's KRT shows what it says is a ballistic missile being launched from an undisclosed location in North Korea, Monday, Feb. 20, 2023. North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles toward Japan on Monday in its second weapons test in three days that drew quick condemnation from its rivals and prompted Tokyo to request an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council. (KRT via AP)

North Korea fires 2 missiles in tests condemned by neighbors

By Hyung-jin Kim and Kim Tong-hyung - Associated Press

Tokyo Olympic bribery trial opens; accused accepts guilt

By Yuri Kageyama - Associated Press

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg answers a question from students at Keio University in Tokyo, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

NATO chief wants more ‘friends’ as Russia, China move closer

By Mari Yamaguchi and Haruka Nuga - Associated Press

Hong Kong's outspoken Cardinal Joseph Zen, center, and other religious protesters hold placards with "Respects religious freedom" written on them during a demonstration outside the China Liaison Office in Hong Kong, Wednesday, July 11, 2012. Reports say a Roman Catholic cardinal and three others have been arrested in Hong Kong on suspicion of colluding with foreign forces to endanger Chinese national security. U.K.-based human rights group Hong Kong Watch said Cardinal Joseph Zen, lawyer Margaret Ng, singer Denise Ho and scholar Hui Po-keung were detained Wednesday, May 11, 2022, by Hong Kong's National Security Police. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

Religious freedom under threat; summit highlights actions by China, developments in Japan

By Mark A. Kellner and Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Tetsuya Yamagami, bottom, is detained near the site of gunshots in Nara Prefecture, western Japan, on July 8, 2022. Japanese prosecutors formally charged the suspect in the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with murder, Japan's NHK public television reported Friday, Jan. 13, 2023. (Katsuhiko Hirano/The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP, File)

Suspect charged with murder in assassination of Japan’s Abe

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Members of a civic group seeking compensation from Japanese firms over forced labor during World War II and opposition lawmakers stage a rally to oppose the government's reported resolution to the issue outside the National Assembly in Seoul, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023. The banners read "Apology and compensation from Japanese war criminal companies and condemn the government of President Yoon Suk Yeol." (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

South Korea plans fund to compensate forced labor victims

By Kim Tong-Hyung - Associated Press

A person holds a piece of white paper during a protest gathering at the University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022. On Tuesday, about a dozen people gathered at the University of Hong Kong, chanting against virus restrictions and holding up sheets of paper with critical slogans. Most were from the mainland, which has a separate legal system from the Chinese territory of Hong Kong, and some spectators joined in their chants. (AP Photo/Bertha Wang)

Japan, South Korea protest China visa stoppage in COVID spat

By Mari Yamaguchi and Kim Tong-Hyung - Associated Press

Passengers arriving from China pass by a COVID-19 testing center at the Incheon International Airport In Incheon, South Korea, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023. Chinese embassies stopped issuing new visas for South Koreans and Japanese on Tuesday in apparent retaliation for COVID-19 measures recently imposed by those countries on travelers from China. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Japan, South Korea protest China visa stoppage amid COVID spat

By Mari Yamaguchi and Kim Tong-hyung - Associated Press

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida attends a press conference at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo, Friday, Dec. 16, 2022. In a major break from its strictly self-defense-only postwar principle, Japan adopted a national security strategy Friday declaring plans to possess preemptive strike capability and cruise missiles within years to give itself more offensive footing against threats from neighboring China and North Korea. (David Mareuil/Pool Photo via AP)

New role, relevance for Tokyo as allies confront challenge from China

By Andrew Salmon - The Washington Times

Japanese flags are displayed along a shopping street during the Year of the Rabbit New Year holidays Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Japan offers cash for families to move out of Tokyo

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

Protesters confront police officers during a rally to oppose Japan's adoption of a new national security strategy near the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2022. North Korea threatened Tuesday to take &quot;bold and decisive military steps&quot; against Japan as it slammed Tokyo's adoption of a national security strategy as an attempt to turn the country into an aggressive military power. The banners read &quot;Stop military cooperation between South Korea, the U.S. and Japan military alliance.&quot; (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

North Korea threatens ‘bold and decisive military steps’ against Japan

By Hyung-Jin Kim - Associated Press

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida arrives for a press conference in Bangkok, Thailand, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, APEC summit, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Japan’s prime minister sacks 3rd minister in a month

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Same-sex couples speak to media at Tokyo metropolitan government as the Japanese capital starts acknowledging same-sex partnerships, Tuesday Nov. 1, 2022, in Tokyo, Japan. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government on Tuesday began issuing certificates recognizing same-sex couples in the Japanese capital, a small improvement toward greater awareness of sexual diversity in a country where same-sex marriage is not allowed. (AP Photo/Mari Yamaguchi)

Japan’s capital begins same-sex partnership recognition

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Kadokawa Corp. Chairman Tsuguhiko Kadokawa speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Sept. 5, 2022. Kadokawa was charged Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022 with bribing a former Tokyo Olympics organizing committee member. (Kyodo News via AP)

Publishing executive charged in Tokyo Olympic bribes scandal

By Yuri Kageyama - Associated Press

People protest outside Diet against the state paying for Japan's former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's funeral in Tokyo on Aug. 31, 2022. A rare state funeral Tuesday, Sept. 27 for the former prime minister who was assassinated in July, has split Japan. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

Why is Japan split over Abe’s state funeral?

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, left, and Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida shake hands before the Japan-USA bilateral meeting at the Akasaka Palace state guest house in Tokyo, Monday, Sept. 26, 2022. (David Mareuil/Pool Photo via AP)

In Tokyo, VP Harris calls U.S.-Japan alliance ‘a cornerstone’

By Chris Megerian and Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Haruyuki Takahashi, executive board member of the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games attends the Tokyo 2020 Executive Board Meeting in Tokyo on March 30, 2020. Criminal allegations against a former Tokyo Olympic organizing committee board member widened Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022, as Japanese prosecutors “re-arrested” Takahashi in suspected payments from a publisher that became a sponsor for the Games. (Issei Kato/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Tokyo Olympics sponsorship scandal widens with more arrests

By Yuri Kageyama - Associated Press