In 1897, Joseon changed its name to the Korean Empire (Daehan Jeguk) and pushed ahead with reforms and an open-door policy, but it was too late. Japan soon won major victories in its wars against the ...

TOKYO, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya will travel to South Korea on Monday to shore up security cooperation between the East Asian neighbours and their mutual U.S. ally ...

The report summarises the mission of a pair of Tu-95 heavy bombers, sent to test the air defences of Japan and South Korea on February 24 2014. The operation coincided with Russia’s annexation of ...

There is extreme animosity in Korea toward Japan, due to Japan’s annexation of Korea at the beginning of the 20th century and brutal Japanese rule there through the end of the Second World War.

SADO, Japan (AP) — South Korea commemorated wartime Korean forced laborers at Japan’s Sado gold mines in a ceremony Monday, a day after boycotting a similar event organized by Japan ...

neighboring South Korea and Japan said. South Korea's military "has detected and is analyzing several short-range ballistic ...