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Roh meets with Japanese envoy

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean President-elect Roh Moo Hyun (R) greets Japanese Ambassador to South Korea Terusuke Terada who called on him for talks in Seoul on Dec. 24.

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Japan to appoint Toshiyuki Takano as ambassador to S. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Japan plans to appoint Toshiyuki Takano (file photo), deputy foreign minister for political affairs, as ambassador to South Korea, government sources said Nov. 13. Takano, 58, is expected to succeed the current ambassador to South Korea, Terusuke Terada, around mid-December, after the current Diet session is over.

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S. Korea summons ambassador over Koizumi's Yasukuni visit

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Choi Sung Hong (R) summons Japanese Ambassador Terusuke Terada (L) on April 22 to deliver his government's protest over Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's surprise visit to Yasukuni Shrine the previous day.

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S. Korea expresses concern on fishing pact

SEOUL, South Korea - Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Han Seung Soo (R) expresses concern to Japanese Ambassador to South Korea Terusuke Terada (L) on Oct. 12 over the move by Japan and Russia to sign an agreement not to allow third countries, including South Korea, to fish in waters around Russian-held islands off Hokkaido claimed by Japan. Han earlier had talks with Russian Ambassador to South Korea Teymuraz Ramishvili.

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S. Korea to step up diplomatic pressure over Yasukuni

SEOUL, South Korea - Japanese Ambassador Terusuke Terada (L) and Vice Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Choi Sung Hong are surrounded by reporters at the South Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Ministry in Seoul on Aug. 14. Choi summoned Terada to protest Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit to Yasukuni Shrine the previous day.

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S. Koreans protest Japan's reply on textbooks

SEOUL, S. Korea - A group of South Korean citizens protest in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on July 9 over Japan's reply to South Korean demands for revision of history textbooks. Japanese Ambassador Terusuke Terada earlier issued his government's reply to South Korea's demands, made in May, that 35 passages in eight history textbooks be revised. Terada told South Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Han Seung Soo two passages in two of the textbooks will be revised.

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Japan rejects requests by China, S. Korea to revise textbooks

SEOUL, South Korea - Japanese Ambassador to Seoul Terusuke Terada (L) and South Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Han Seung Soo (R) are surrounded by reporters at Han's ministry in Seoul on June 9. Terada conveyed to Han Japan's rejection of requests by China and South Korea for revisions to controversial history textbooks.

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S. Korea lodges formal protest over Japan's fishing ban

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Han Seung Soo (R) summons Japanese Ambassador Terusuke Terada (L) to his ministry in Seoul on June 25. Han lodged his country's formal protest against Japan for barring its fishing boats from operating in waters off the Sanriku region of northeastern Japan.

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S. Korea demands 35 revisions to Japanese textbooks

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Han Seung Soo (R) hands over documents to Japanese Ambassador Terusuke Terada at his ministry in Seoul on May 8, demanding Japan make 35 revisions to eight controversial history textbooks. South Korea feels the textbooks justify Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula and whitewash wartime atrocities committed by the Imperial Japanese Army.

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S. Korea lodges protest over new Japanese textbook

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Han Seung Soo (R) summons Japanese Ambassador to South Korea Terusuke Terada (L) to his ministry in Seoul on April 4. Han lodged a formal protest against Japan's approval of a junior high school history textbook that Seoul says justifies Japan's wartime military aggression against Asian countries.

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Roh meets with Japanese envoy

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean President-elect Roh Moo Hyun (R) greets Japanese Ambassador to South Korea Terusuke Terada who called on him for talks in Seoul on Dec. 24. (Kyodo)

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Japan to appoint Toshiyuki Takano as ambassador to S. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Japan plans to appoint Toshiyuki Takano (file photo), deputy foreign minister for political affairs, as ambassador to South Korea, government sources said Nov. 13. Takano, 58, is expected to succeed the current ambassador to South Korea, Terusuke Terada, around mid-December, after the current Diet session is over. (Kyodo)

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S. Korea summons ambassador over Koizumi's Yasukuni visit

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Choi Sung Hong (R) summons Japanese Ambassador Terusuke Terada (L) on April 22 to deliver his government's protest over Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's surprise visit to Yasukuni Shrine the previous day.

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S. Korea expresses concern on fishing pact

SEOUL, South Korea - Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Han Seung Soo (R) expresses concern to Japanese Ambassador to South Korea Terusuke Terada (L) on Oct. 12 over the move by Japan and Russia to sign an agreement not to allow third countries, including South Korea, to fish in waters around Russian-held islands off Hokkaido claimed by Japan. Han earlier had talks with Russian Ambassador to South Korea Teymuraz Ramishvili.

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S. Korea to step up diplomatic pressure over Yasukuni

SEOUL, South Korea - Japanese Ambassador Terusuke Terada (L) and Vice Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Choi Sung Hong are surrounded by reporters at the South Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Ministry in Seoul on Aug. 14. Choi summoned Terada to protest Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit to Yasukuni Shrine the previous day.

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S. Korea lodges formal protest over Japan's fishing ban

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Han Seung Soo (R) summons Japanese Ambassador Terusuke Terada (L) to his ministry in Seoul on June 25. Han lodged his country's formal protest against Japan for barring its fishing boats from operating in waters off the Sanriku region of northeastern Japan.

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S. Korea demands 35 revisions to Japanese textbooks

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Han Seung Soo (R) hands over documents to Japanese Ambassador Terusuke Terada at his ministry in Seoul on May 8, demanding Japan make 35 revisions to eight controversial history textbooks. South Korea feels the textbooks justify Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula and whitewash wartime atrocities committed by the Imperial Japanese Army.

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S. Korea lodges protest over new Japanese textbook

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Han Seung Soo (R) summons Japanese Ambassador to South Korea Terusuke Terada (L) to his ministry in Seoul on April 4. Han lodged a formal protest against Japan's approval of a junior high school history textbook that Seoul says justifies Japan's wartime military aggression against Asian countries.