While almost 100 local governments in Japan give subsidies to North Korean schools in their areas, these schools, in turn, teach anti-Japan curriculums.
Did Kim Yo Jong offer to accept Kishida's visit to North Korea on the condition that the abductions issue would not become a stumbling block? Here's...
Julie Turner, United States Special Envoy on North Korean Rights Issues spoke on the "importance of bringing actors back to the table" on the abduction issue.
A former North Korean diplomat who defected to South Korea in 2016, PPP lawmaker Tae Young-ho has committed to accounting for the North's abductions victims.
At the event, abductee Megumi Yokota's brother Takuya Yokota called the North Korean abductions issue "a battle for lives that we cannot afford to lose."
Rescuing the abduction victims is a race against time. A renowned expert on Japan-Korean relations explains the feasibility of three ways they could be saved.
The 13-year-old Megumi was taken away to North Korea on a spy ship. It is shameful that her abduction is ongoing and North Korea has not...
The PM's policy speech addressed many issues but failed to firmly address the nation's security and his tax cut proposal seemed designed to curry public favor.
Kaoru Hasuike, who was freed 21 years ago, tells young Japanese that North Korea "will not [have]...a bright future without resolving the abductions issue."
Longtime scholar of Korean Peninsula issues, Professor Tsutomu Nishioka analyzes the challenges and progress in relations between Japan and South Korea.
Tsutomu Nishioka, a Korean Peninsula expert, assesses Yoon Suk-yeol's presidency and the issues at stake for the region in a revealing 2-part interview.
Amid the increasing threat of despotic regimes, the new Kishida Cabinet must prioritize constitutional reform to establish defense as a core state function.