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Cho named ambassador to Japan

SEOUL, South Korea - Cho Se Hyung (file photo), a senior adviser of South Korea's ruling Millennium Democratic Party, was named Feb. 5 as new ambassador to Japan. Cho, 70, will replace Choi Sang Yong, who assumed the post in March 2000.

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S. Korean envoy expresses regret over Koizumi shrine visit

TOKYO, Japan - South Korean Ambassador to Japan Choi Sang Yong (R) shakes hands with Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Yoshiji Nogami at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Aug. 14. The envoy expressed regret at Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit the previous day to Yasukuni Shrine honoring Japan's war dead as well as war criminals.

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Japan protests fishing off isles to S. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Senior Vice Foreign Minister Shigeo Uetake (L) leads South Korean Ambassador to Japan Choi Sang Yong to a room at the Foreign Ministry on Aug. 2. Uetake officially protested to South Korea about South Korean fishers of saury beginning operations Aug. 1 in waters around Russian-held islands off Hokkaido which are claimed by Japan. Fishing began under a Russian-South Korean accord.

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Choi expresses disappointment over textbooks

TOKYO, Japan - South Korean Ambassador to Japan Choi Sang Yong (L) shakes hands with Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Yutaka Kawashima in Tokyo on July 10. During their meeting, Choi formally conveyed South Korea's disappointment over Japan's decision the previous day to reject most of the revisions requested by Seoul to controversial junior high school history textbooks. Critics say the eight textbooks approved recently by Japan's education ministry distort history and gloss over Japan's wartime atrocities.

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S. Korean envoy asks Koizumi to revise history textbook

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (L) shakes hands with South Korean Ambassador to Japan Choi Sang Yong at his official residence in Tokyo on June 27 prior to their talks. Choi asked Tokyo to revise a junior high school history textbook that critics charge tries to justify Japanese aggression before and during World War II.

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S. Korean envoy seeks Japan 'calm' over textbook revision

SHIMONOSEKI, Japan - South Korean Ambassador to Japan Choi Sang Yong urged Japan on June 22 at a meeting in Shimonoseki in western Japan to deal ''calmly'' with South Korea's demand for revisions to some history textbooks approved for use from next April. In May, Seoul demanded that Japan make 35 revisions to the new junior high school textbooks, which critics say justify Japan's wartime colonization of Korea.

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S. Korean envoy conveys textbook revision demand to Japan

TOKYO, Japan - South Korean Ambassador to Japan Choi Sang Yong (R) talks with Education Minister Atsuko Toyama (L) on May 11 to explain the South Korean government's demand for revisions to Japanese textbooks it claims distort history.

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Japan, S. Korea agree on basis for resolving textbook issue

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka (R) meets with South Korean Ambassador to Japan Choi Sang Yong at her ministry in Tokyo on May 2. They agreed that an apology issued in 1995 by then Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama should be the basis for resolving the issue of controversial Japanese history textbooks.

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Kono receives letter from S. Korean foreign minister

TOKYO, Japan - South Korean Ambassador to Japan Choi Sang Yong (L) on April 19 hands to Japanese Foreign Minister Yohei Kono (R) a letter from S. Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Han Seung Soo complaining about Japan's approval of a controversial history textbook. The envoy returned to Japan earlier in the day, nine days after being recalled to Seoul in protest over the textbook approval.

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S. Korean ambassador to Japan returns for textbook talks

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Ambassador to Japan Choi Sang Yong heads for a plane at Incheon International Airport, 50 kilometers west of Seoul, on April 19 to return to Tokyo. The South Korean government had recalled Choi in protest over a recently approved Japanese history textbook that critics say distorts facts.

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S. Korean envoy returns home over history text issue

NARITA, Japan - South Korean Ambassador to Japan Choi Sang Yong prepares to leave Narita airport April 10 for Seoul for consultations on Japan's approval of a controversial nationalist-authored history textbook.

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S. Koreans protest over Japanese history textbook

SEOUL, South Korea - Members of South Korean civic organizations burn Japanese products in Seoul on April 9 in protest over Japan's approval of a controversial nationalist-authored history textbook. South Korea's Foreign Affairs and Trade Ministry said the same day South Korea will recall its Ambassador to Japan Choi Sang Yong on April 10 to protest the approval of the textbook.

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Japan protests fishing off isles to S. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Senior Vice Foreign Minister Shigeo Uetake (L) leads South Korean Ambassador to Japan Choi Sang Yong to a room at the Foreign Ministry on Aug. 2. Uetake officially protested to South Korea about South Korean fishers of saury beginning operations Aug. 1 in waters around Russian-held islands off Hokkaido which are claimed by Japan. Fishing began under a Russian-South Korean accord.

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Cho named ambassador to Japan

SEOUL, South Korea - Cho Se Hyung (file photo), a senior adviser of South Korea's ruling Millennium Democratic Party, was named Feb. 5 as new ambassador to Japan. Cho, 70, will replace Choi Sang Yong, who assumed the post in March 2000.

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S. Korean envoy expresses regret over Koizumi shrine visit

TOKYO, Japan - South Korean Ambassador to Japan Choi Sang Yong (R) shakes hands with Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Yoshiji Nogami at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Aug. 14. The envoy expressed regret at Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit the previous day to Yasukuni Shrine honoring Japan's war dead as well as war criminals.

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S. Korean envoy asks Koizumi to revise history textbook

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (L) shakes hands with South Korean Ambassador to Japan Choi Sang Yong at his official residence in Tokyo on June 27 prior to their talks. Choi asked Tokyo to revise a junior high school history textbook that critics charge tries to justify Japanese aggression before and during World War II.

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S. Korean envoy seeks Japan 'calm' over textbook revision

SHIMONOSEKI, Japan - South Korean Ambassador to Japan Choi Sang Yong urged Japan on June 22 at a meeting in Shimonoseki in western Japan to deal ''calmly'' with South Korea's demand for revisions to some history textbooks approved for use from next April. In May, Seoul demanded that Japan make 35 revisions to the new junior high school textbooks, which critics say justify Japan's wartime colonization of Korea.

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S. Korean envoy conveys textbook revision demand to Japan

TOKYO, Japan - South Korean Ambassador to Japan Choi Sang Yong (R) talks with Education Minister Atsuko Toyama (L) on May 11 to explain the South Korean government's demand for revisions to Japanese textbooks it claims distort history.

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S. Korean ambassador to Japan returns for textbook talks

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Ambassador to Japan Choi Sang Yong heads for a plane at Incheon International Airport, 50 kilometers west of Seoul, on April 19 to return to Tokyo. The South Korean government had recalled Choi in protest over a recently approved Japanese history textbook that critics say distorts facts.

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Kono receives letter from S. Korean foreign minister

TOKYO, Japan - South Korean Ambassador to Japan Choi Sang Yong (L) on April 19 hands to Japanese Foreign Minister Yohei Kono (R) a letter from S. Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Han Seung Soo complaining about Japan's approval of a controversial history textbook. The envoy returned to Japan earlier in the day, nine days after being recalled to Seoul in protest over the textbook approval.

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S. Korean envoy returns home over history text issue

NARITA, Japan - South Korean Ambassador to Japan Choi Sang Yong prepares to leave Narita airport April 10 for Seoul for consultations on Japan's approval of a controversial nationalist-authored history textbook.

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S. Korean envoy returns home over history text issue

NARITA, Japan - South Korean Ambassador to Japan Choi Sang Yong prepares to leave Narita airport April 10 for Seoul for consultations on Japan's approval of a controversial nationalist-authored history textbook.

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Professor named S. Korean envoy to Japan

SEOUL, South Korea - File photo shows Choi Sang Yong, an academic and expert on Japanese affairs, who was named on Feb. 15 as envoy to Japan to replace Kim Suk Kyu. Choi, 57, studied at the University of Tokyo for about seven years from 1965, obtaining a master's and a doctoral degree. Choi has written a variety of books on Japanese politics and society, including ''Japan and Studies on Japan,'' and ''Anatomy of Modern Japan.''