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Plans to hold the first in-person summit between the leaders of Japan and South Korea have hit a snag. | BLUE HOUSE / VIA KYODO
Reuters Jul 19, 2021
South Korean President Moon Jae-in will not visit Japan for the Tokyo Olympics, the presidential Blue House announced Monday, after talks to bring Moon together for his first summit with Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga apparently faltered.
Plans to hold the first in-person summit between the leaders had hit a snag over a disparaging comment by a Japanese diplomat about the South Korean president, the latest flare-up between the fractious neighbors.
May 20, 2021
The Myanmar junta dismissed two diplomats at the country’s embassy in Tokyo after they boycotted their duties in protest against the Feb. 1 coup and ensuing violent military crackdown on demonstrators, diplomatic sources said Wednesday.
The move follows the firing of Myanmar’s ambassador to the United Nations in February and the embassy lock-out of its envoy to Britain in April, and marks the first time for the ousting of Myanmar diplomats to be confirmed in Japan.
The junta-controlled Foreign Ministry withdrew the pair’s diplomatic status and passports and revoked their access to the embassy compound in which they were living until early March, the sources said.
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Japan, the only country to experience a nuclear attack, refuses to sign a UN treaty banning nuclear weapons
By North Asia correspondent Jake Sturmer and Yumi Asada in Hiroshima
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Hiroshi Harada is one of more than 100,000 hibakusha , the Japanese word for atomic bomb survivors.
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Hiroshi Harada was six years old when the United States dropped the world s first nuclear weapon in war on the western Japanese city of Hiroshima. First there was a flash, he said. My father quickly covered my body without knowing what it was. We were facing down and there was a blast the next moment.