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Japan is targeting an 'upmarket' audience of wealthy business executives, city professionals, millennial foodies and highbrow arts enthusiasts.
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Living as a woman in North Korea can be psychologically and physically gruelling.
Iwao Hakamada in 2014.
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Iwao Hakamada was tried for quadruple murder in 1966, but the evidence that convicted him is regarded with widespread scepticism.
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Looking at the agreement, it appears that Kim Jong-un has outmanoeuvred Donald Trump.
Moon Jae-in meets Kim Jong-un on the Korean border.
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Alongside denuclearisation, reunification is the biggest potential game-changer on the Korean peninsula. But it remains a pipe dream.
Fighter? Taiwan’s first female president, Tsai Ing-wen.
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The measure of women's political advancement isn't the number of female leaders, but the changes they make to everyday women's lives.
EPA/Jeon Heon-kyun
A remarkable year on the Korean peninsula has been marked by both bitter enmity and genuine goodwill. Now, the tension is being ratcheted up again.
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After decades of deadly enmity, Libya and the West made a major breakthrough on weapons of mass destruction. How?
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The astonishing sight of two Korean leaders crossing the border that divides them is just a first step.
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Thanks to South Korea, there is a chance for peace with North Korea. Whether the Trump administration can take it is another matter.
Watching from the south.
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A year ago, productive north-south talks seemed inconceivable – but with the US tripping over its own feet, things are changing.
Yuan Shikai in 1915.
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There's a very unflattering historical parallel for Xi Jinping's move to lift term limits. The Chinese Communist Party is having none of it.
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Xi Jinping is now ruling without term limits. That's bad news for corrupt officials – and perhaps for the Chinese people.
Come together: South Korea’s president and first lady (front) with North Korea’s head of state and Kim Jong-un’s sister.
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North Korea clearly understands that going straight into high-level negotiations isn't always the way to make a breakthrough.
Japanese soldiers of the Sino-Japanese War.
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As Japanese imperialism rose and fell, its leaders interpreted and re-interpreted a single distinctive concept: "bushido".
Coming on the heels of 'gold', 'blond' and 'wealthy', 'north' is a telling symbol of how Japan saw 2017.
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Still smarting from centuries of ancient humiliation, China is ready to rise to global supremacy.
EPA/Franck Robichon
How did a man once suspected of dubious far-right sympathies end up on the threshold of a record third term?
South Koreans protest against China’s treatment of northern defectors.
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Tens of thousands of North Koreans live in China. Their lives are often no better than they were at home.
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As despotic personality cults go, Stalin's example still leads the pack. But North Korea's ruling family have taken it to a new extreme.