South Korea and Japan are set to hold the first round of official negotiations later this month since the breakdown of their trade relations in July of this year, media reported Thursday

Dangerous levels of radiation have been detected at a stadium in Fukushima Prefecture slated to be the starting point of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Torch Relay, a leading environmental organization stated on Wednesday, amid claims that the Japanese government's decontamination efforts following the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster have been unsuccessful

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrived in Seoul on Wednesday to meet with his South Korean counterpart, Kang Kyung-wha, for the first bilateral talks between the two ministers in the South Korean capital since relations soured three years ago following the installation of a US missile defense system in South Korea, media reported

The Japanese parliament rubber-stamped a new US-Japan trade deal, initially agreed between President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in September, which will cut tariffs on agricultural products from 2020 onward, media reported on Wednesday, although a separate deal concerning tariffs on the automotive industry is still to come