Relations Between Japan and Korea

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Channel: GBH Forum Network · 2014 · Education

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Ambassador Teruske Terada, president of The Foreign Press Center, Japan, and former Japanese ambassador to Republic of Korea, speaks about the challenges facing Japan, South Korea and the US in this increasingly complex global landscape.



For centuries Koreans and Japanese have considered themselves distant neighbors at best, bitter foes at worst, but the escalating tensions between the US and North Korea and rising anti-American sentiment in South Korea have placed new pressures on Japan-Korea relations that could have wide-ranging implications for economic and political stability throughout northeast Asia for decades to come.

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