Ten years after fleeing North Korea at the risk of her life, Mun Yeon-hui found in Japan the peace and recognition she had never known in her homeland. Now living in Chiba, east of Tokyo, she and her ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plaintiffs, their lawyers and supporters gather outside the Tokyo District Court after winning its decision ordering North Korea ...

Intense debates and interpretations have surrounded the history of Korea’s liberation period, yet research remains insufficient. One cause is the scarcity of primary sources from the era reflecting ...

Like her predecessors, Takaichi has offered a summit to resolve the abductees issue. North Korea is unlikely to be interested. U.S. President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae ...

In a January 26 ruling, a Japanese district court held the North Korean government liable for grave human rights violations against Koreans and Japanese citizens lured to North Korea through its ...

TOKYO — A Japanese court on Monday held North Korea responsible for the human rights violations of four plaintiffs lured to the North by Pyongyang's postwar false promise of living in “paradise on ...

Plaintiffs, their lawyers and supporters gather outside the Tokyo District Court after winning its decision ordering North Korea to pay damages over its decades-long human rights violations after ...