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Japan, South Korea Reach Deal To Resolve "Comfort Women" Row

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - DEC. 28: Japan and South Korea reached an agreement Monday to resolve the issue of women who were forced to work in Japan's wartime military brothels through creating a new fund, in a move that could finally put to rest a thorny dispute that has long hurt bilateral ties. The two Asian neighbors struck the deal to end their protracted dispute regarding so-called "comfort women" following talks between Kishida and his South Korean counterpart, Yun Byung Se, in Seoul. -- The Government of the Republic of Korea and the Government of Japan have intensively discussed the issue of comfort women between the ROK and Japan at bilateral meetings including the Director-General consultations.

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Japan, N. Korea hold 2nd day of talks, focus on abduction cases

ULAN BATOR, Mongolia - Yoshiki Mine, Japan's ambassador in charge of normalization talks with North Korea, leaves his hotel for second-day talks between Japan and North Korea in Ulan Bator on Sept. 6. The talks focus on the thorny bilateral dispute over Japanese nationals abducted by North Korean agents.

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Japan, N. Korea to address history issue on 1st day of talks

ULAN BATOR, Mongolia - Song Il Ho (C), North Korea's ambassador in charge of normalization talks with Japan, speaks during the first day of the two-day talks at the Mongolian state guesthouse in Ulan Bator on Sept. 5. The talks are aimed at resolving thorny issues preventing the two countries from normalizing diplomatic relations.

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Japan, N. Korea to address history issue on 1st day of talks

ULAN BATOR, Mongolia - Yoshiki Mine (C), Japan's ambassador in charge of normalization talks with North Korea, speaks on the first day of the two-day talks at the Mongolian state guesthouse in Ulan Bator on Sept. 5. The talks are aimed at resolving thorny issues preventing the two countries from normalizing diplomatic relations.

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Japan-U.S. TPP talks

WASHINGTON, United States - Hiroshi Oe (L), deputy chief Japanese negotiator for the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal, and Wendy Cutler, acting deputy U.S. trade representative, shake hands in Washington on April 15, 2014. The trade officials held a preparatory session the same day for ministerial talks on the thorny issue of tariffs on agricultural produce in the TPP negotiations.

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Japan-N Korea talks

ULAN BATOR, Mongolia - Japan and North Korea start working-level talks in Ulan Bator, Mongolia, on Nov. 15, 2012, on issues "of interest" to both sides, with Tokyo intent on making progress on the thorny issue of Pyongyang's past abductions of Japanese nationals. Japanese delegates sit on the left side.

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Top gov't spokesman to visit U.S. bases in Okinawa

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirofumi Hirano speaks during a news conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Jan. 5, 2010. He said that he will make a three-day visit to Okinawa from Jan. 8 to inspect the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station and its proposed relocation site as Tokyo mulls the thorny issue.

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Japan, U.S. hold 1st high-level working group on base issue

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos (front) enters the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Nov. 17 to attend the first high-level working group meeting between Japan and the U.S. to seek an early solution to the thorny issue of relocating a U.S. military airfield in Okinawa.

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Japan, U.S. hold 1st high-level working group on base issue

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada speaks at the news conference at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Nov. 17, 2009 before attending the first high-level working group meeting between Japan and the U.S. to seek an early solution to the thorny issue of relocating a U.S. military airfield in Okinawa.

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Japan, U.S. hold 1st high-level working group on base issue

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa enters the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Nov. 17, 2009, to attend the first high-level working group meeting between Japan and the U.S. to seek an early solution to the thorny issue of relocating a U.S. military airfield in Okinawa.

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Film on Japanese girl abducted by N. Korea debuts in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - The critically acclaimed Canadian documentary telling the story of a Japanese girl, Megumi Yokota, kidnapped by North Korean agents who became a symbol of one of Japan's most thorny diplomatic issues, hit screens across Japan on Nov. 25. Megumi's father Shigeru (R) and mother Sakie (C) greet the audience on the stage after its first showing at a movie theater in Tokyo's Shibuya district the same day.

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Film on Japanese girl abducted by N. Korea debuts in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - The critically acclaimed Canadian documentary telling the story of a Japanese girl, Megumi Yokota, kidnapped by North Korean agents who became a symbol of one of Japan's most thorny diplomatic issues, hit screens across Japan on Nov. 25. Megumi's father Shigeru (R) and mother Sakie (L) read remarks on the film after its first showing at a movie theater in Tokyo's Shibuya district the same day.

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Narita airport dispute arbitrator Sumiya dies at 86

TOKYO, Japan - Mikio Sumiya (file photo taken in June, 1985), a labor economist who acted as an arbitrator in the 1990s in a thorny dispute between the central government and opponents of Narita airport, died on Feb. 22 at a Tokyo hospital. He was 86. Sumiya, a professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo, previously served as president of the private Tokyo Woman's Christian University.

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Book to be published by Kim Dae Jung's wife

SENDAI, Japan - Lee Hee Hoo, wife of South Korean President Kim Dae Jung, will publish a Japanese edition of a book she wrote, which is a collection of her letters around 1980 to Kim, then an imprisoned dissident. The photo shows the Japanese edition (R) and the original Korean edition (L). The book's Japanese title translates as ''Beyond a Thorny Path -- Letters of Prayer to My Husband.''

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Super Troopers (2001)

Erik Stolhanske, Jay Chandrasekhar, Steve Lemme Characters: Rabbit,Thorny,Mac Film: Super Troopers (USA 2001) Director: Jay Chandrasekhar 19 January 2001 Date: 19 January 2001

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Super Troopers (2001)

Kevin Heffernan, Jay Chandrasekhar, Steve Lemme Characters: Farva,Thorny,Mac Film: Super Troopers (USA 2001) Director: Jay Chandrasekhar 19 January 2001 Date: 19 January 2001

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Super Troopers (2001)

Steve Lemme, Jay Chandrasekhar, Paul Soter Characters: Mac,Thorny,Foster Film: Super Troopers (USA 2001) Director: Jay Chandrasekhar 19 January 2001 Date: 19 January 2001

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Super Troopers (2001)

Jay Chandrasekhar, Steve Lemme, Brian Cox Characters: Thorny,Mac,Captain O'Hagan Film: Super Troopers (USA 2001) Director: Jay Chandrasekhar 19 January 2001 Date: 19 January 2001

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'Giovanni's Island' animation hint for solving thorny issue with Russia

A rusty missile artillery piece still remains on the coastline of Shikotan, a Russian-held island off Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido, in this photo taken on June 7, 2014. The 2014 Japanese animation film "Giovanni's Island" brings back various memories to former Japanese islanders vis-a-vis their relations with Russian children at the end of World War II. Friendship with them would be a key to solving territorial issues, according to one of the islanders. (Photo by Daisuke Suzuki) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ministerial TPP talks begin with little progress on thorny issues

Japanese Trans-Pacific Partnership Minister Akira Amari speaks to the press in Atlanta on Sept. 30, 2015, after TPP ministerial talks adjourned. Amari indicated there was little progress on the thorny issues of new drug patents, tariffs on automobiles and market access for dairy products at the end of the first day of the talks. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan, N. Korea hold 2nd day of talks, focus on abduction cases

ULAN BATOR, Mongolia - Yoshiki Mine, Japan's ambassador in charge of normalization talks with North Korea, leaves his hotel for second-day talks between Japan and North Korea in Ulan Bator on Sept. 6. The talks focus on the thorny bilateral dispute over Japanese nationals abducted by North Korean agents. (Kyodo)

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Japan, N. Korea to address history issue on 1st day of talks

ULAN BATOR, Mongolia - Song Il Ho (C), North Korea's ambassador in charge of normalization talks with Japan, speaks during the first day of the two-day talks at the Mongolian state guesthouse in Ulan Bator on Sept. 5. The talks are aimed at resolving thorny issues preventing the two countries from normalizing diplomatic relations. (Kyodo)

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Japan, N. Korea to address history issue on 1st day of talks

ULAN BATOR, Mongolia - Yoshiki Mine (C), Japan's ambassador in charge of normalization talks with North Korea, speaks on the first day of the two-day talks at the Mongolian state guesthouse in Ulan Bator on Sept. 5. The talks are aimed at resolving thorny issues preventing the two countries from normalizing diplomatic relations. (Kyodo)

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Film on Japanese girl abducted by N. Korea debuts in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - The critically acclaimed Canadian documentary telling the story of a Japanese girl, Megumi Yokota, kidnapped by North Korean agents who became a symbol of one of Japan's most thorny diplomatic issues, hit screens across Japan on Nov. 25. Megumi's father Shigeru (R) and mother Sakie (C) greet the audience on the stage after its first showing at a movie theater in Tokyo's Shibuya district the same day. (Kyodo)

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Film on Japanese girl abducted by N. Korea debuts in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - The critically acclaimed Canadian documentary telling the story of a Japanese girl, Megumi Yokota, kidnapped by North Korean agents who became a symbol of one of Japan's most thorny diplomatic issues, hit screens across Japan on Nov. 25. Megumi's father Shigeru (R) and mother Sakie (L) read remarks on the film after its first showing at a movie theater in Tokyo's Shibuya district the same day. (Kyodo)

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Campbell in Japan over Okinawa military base

TOKYO, Japan - Kurt Campbell, U.S. assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, arrives for talks at the Japanese Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on April 28, 2010. He is in Japan to discuss the bilateral alliance, apparently including the thorny issue of where to relocate the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station in Okinawa Prefecture. (Pool photo) (Kyodo)

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Top gov't spokesman to visit U.S. bases in Okinawa

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirofumi Hirano speaks during a news conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Jan. 5, 2010. He said that he will make a three-day visit to Okinawa from Jan. 8 to inspect the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station and its proposed relocation site as Tokyo mulls the thorny issue. (Kyodo)

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Sparrow, bush

Sparrow sitting on the top of thorny bush. (CTK Photo/Roman Krompolc)

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Japan rejects S. Korea's demand over "comfort women"

Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga is pictured during a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 10, 2018. Suga rejected South Korean President Moon Jae In's call for Tokyo to do more to settle the issue of "comfort women" forced to work in Japanese wartime military brothels, saying the two countries should steadily implement a 2015 bilateral deal on the thorny issue. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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S. Korea leader says Japan needs to apologize to "comfort women"

South Korean President Moon Jae In speaks at a New Year press conference in Seoul on Jan. 10, 2018. Moon said Japan needs to apologize to "comfort women" forced to work in Japanese wartime military brothels, one day after Seoul unveiled its new position on a bilateral deal on the thorny issue. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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S. Korea leader says Japan needs to apologize to "comfort women"

South Korean President Moon Jae In speaks at a New Year press conference in Seoul on Jan. 10, 2018. Moon said Japan needs to apologize to "comfort women" forced to work in Japanese wartime military brothels, one day after Seoul unveiled its new position on a bilateral deal on the thorny issue. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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S. Korea leader says Japan needs to apologize to "comfort women"

South Korean President Moon Jae In speaks at a New Year press conference in Seoul on Jan. 10, 2018. Moon said Japan needs to apologize to "comfort women" forced to work in Japanese wartime military brothels, one day after Seoul unveiled its new position on a bilateral deal on the thorny issue. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan, EU resume free trade talks, dairy, autos remain as thorny issues

EU Agriculture and Rural Development Commissioner Phil Hogan (L) and Japanese Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Yuji Yamamoto shake hands ahead of their talks on a free trade deal in Tokyo on July 1, 2017. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan, EU resume free trade talks, dairy, autos remain as thorny issues

(From L) EU Agriculture and Rural Development Commissioner Phil Hogan, EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom, Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and Japanese Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Yuji Yamamoto pose for a photo in Tokyo on July 1, 2017, ahead of their talks on a free trade deal. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan, EU resume free trade talks, dairy, autos remain as thorny issues

Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida (3rd from front R) and EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom (5th from front L) hold talks on a free trade deal in Tokyo on July 1, 2017. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan, U.S. hold 1st high-level working group on base issue

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada speaks at the news conference at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Nov. 17, 2009 before attending the first high-level working group meeting between Japan and the U.S. to seek an early solution to the thorny issue of relocating a U.S. military airfield in Okinawa. (Kyodo)

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Japan, U.S. hold 1st high-level working group on base issue

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa enters the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Nov. 17, 2009, to attend the first high-level working group meeting between Japan and the U.S. to seek an early solution to the thorny issue of relocating a U.S. military airfield in Okinawa. (Kyodo)

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Japan, U.S. hold 1st high-level working group on base issue

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos (front) enters the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Nov. 17 to attend the first high-level working group meeting between Japan and the U.S. to seek an early solution to the thorny issue of relocating a U.S. military airfield in Okinawa. (Kyodo)

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Narita airport dispute arbitrator Sumiya dies at 86

TOKYO, Japan - Mikio Sumiya (file photo taken in June, 1985), a labor economist who acted as an arbitrator in the 1990s in a thorny dispute between the central government and opponents of Narita airport, died on Feb. 22 at a Tokyo hospital. He was 86. Sumiya, a professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo, previously served as president of the private Tokyo Woman's Christian University. (Kyodo)

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Book to be published by Kim Dae Jung's wife

SENDAI, Japan - Lee Hee Hoo, wife of South Korean President Kim Dae Jung, will publish a Japanese edition of a book she wrote, which is a collection of her letters around 1980 to Kim, then an imprisoned dissident. The photo shows the Japanese edition (R) and the original Korean edition (L). The book's Japanese title translates as ''Beyond a Thorny Path -- Letters of Prayer to My Husband.''