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In November 2019, Japan and South Korea agreed to hold formal talks in December in a step to improve relations after recent trade disputes. [87] Amid rising concerns over China's assertiveness and North Korean threats, Japan and South Korea significantly strengthened their defense ties, marking a notable shift in regional alliances.
From 1910 to 1945, Korea was ruled by the Empire of Japan. Under Japanese rule, Korean women—primarily from South Korea—were forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army. Japan's rule of Korea has strained relations between the two countries. [2]
South Korea's trade with Japan was US$892.1 million in 2008, with a surplus of nearly US$327.1 million on the Japanese side. [13] Japanese and South Koreans firms often had interdependent relations, which gave Japan advantages in South Korea's growing market. In 1996 FIFA announced that the South Korea-Japan would jointly host the 2002 FIFA ...
Japan welcomed a thaw in relations with South Korea in its annual defence paper on Friday but otherwise offered a gloomy assessment of the threat of China's territorial ambitions, its security ...
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida called on Friday to maintain the momentum behind an improvement in relations with South Korea during a summit with President Yoon Suk Yeol in Seoul on Friday.
South Korea's acting President Choi Sang-mok vowed to continue trilateral cooperation with Japan and the United States, saying on Friday his country's diplomacy remains steadfast despite an ...
South Korea refused diplomatic and trade relations with Japan, using tensions with Japan to rally support for the South Korean government. The early ROK (Republic of Korea; South Korea) government derived its legitimacy from its opposition to Japan and North Korea, portraying South Korea as under threat from the North and South.
A comfort women rally in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul demanding compensation from the Japanese government in August 2011. Although the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) officially cites "undermined trust in the field of export control" as its reason to remove South Korea from the white list, [6] many external observers argued that current tensions more broadly ...