It will be more broadly distributed -- maintaining our strong presence in Japan and the Korean Peninsula, while enhancing our presence in Southeast Asia.
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They are called striped beakfish, and they are native to warmer waters near Japan, China and the Korean Peninsula.
The exercise will be conducted in the southern port city of Busan and will include patrol ships and helicopters from Korean maritime police and the Japan Coast Guard.
In 1974, Park's wife was shot and killed by a Japan-born Korean claiming he was acting on assassination orders by North Korea founder and then leader Kim Il Sung.
"At this occasion, we expressed strong regrets with regards to the distorted understanding of history and anachronistic words from Japan, its government and politicians, " South Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman Cho Tai-young said Thursday.
Around the turn of the century Imperial Japan colonized the Korean peninsula and ruled with characteristic brutality.
Soyabeans are native to north-east Asia (Japan, the Korean peninsular and north-east China).
"North Korea has short and medium range missiles that could complicate a situation on the Korean peninsula (and perhaps reach Japan), but we have not seen any evidence that it has long-range missiles that could strike the continental U.S., Guam or Hawaii, " wrote James Hardy, Asia-Pacific editor at IHS Jane's Defense Weekly, in a note to clients on Tuesday.
"From what we know of its existing inventory, North Korea has short- and medium-range missiles that could complicate a situation on the Korean Peninsula (and perhaps reach Japan), but we have not seen any evidence that it has long-range missiles that could strike the continental U.S., Guam or Hawaii, " James Hardy, Asia Pacific editor of IHS Jane's Defence Weekly, wrote in a recent analysis.
Mr. Kay also would use economic and financial pressure points, especially suspending South Korean trade links with the North and Japan's money flows to North Korea, to compel Pyongyang to accept aggressive, intrusive inspections of its nuclear facilities.
The astonishing figure includes 83, 000 South Koreans captured during the Korean war of 1950-53, and 93, 000 ethnic-Korean residents of Japan who ended up in North Korea, unable to leave.
To use a Korean name and Korean citizenship status in Japan means discrimination in education and employment, and difficulties in social interaction, including pre-marital checks and assumptions about ties to the criminal underworld.
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The trip added to heightened tensions between Japan and South Korea that stem from disagreements over Japan's colonial rule of the Korean peninsula for much of the first half of the 20th century.
Three of the other parties -- China, South Korea and Japan -- have advocated a more conciliatory approach to solving the North Korean nuclear issues, and have urged the United States to be more flexible.
North Korea has in recent weeks threatened missile strikes on US bases in Asia, including in Japan and South Korea, as well as South Korean border islands.
There have been fears that because Japan and South Korea compete in similar markets, Korean goods may lose out as a result of the currency moves and that such developments may also hurt South Korea's overall growth.
But such a sanguine approach comes harder to those countries, namely South Korea and Japan, which are the butt of warlike rhetoric and the target of potential North Korean rockets.
The conflict ends with defeat of North Korean forces and decapitation of the North Korean leadership through massive airstrikes, but the damage to South Korea and Japan, which is within missile range, is appalling.
Clinton will also visit Japan and China during her trip, and the North Korean issue is likely to be high on the agenda.
There are concerns that with Japan and South Korea competing in similar markets, South Korean goods may lose out as a result of fluctuations in the currency.
These huge, sky-blackening dust storms sweep across Asia in March and April, bringing with them millions of tons of sand from inner Mongolia and depositing it in China and on across the Korean peninsula to Japan.
Even if the outcome is successful, Japan, to avoid floods of North Korean refugees and to preserve its relationship with Uncle Sam, will have to fund a huge slug of the cost of rebuilding North Korea.
Korean reunification would be expensive, and Japan would be expected to foot much of the bill.
Asia marks two important anniversaries this year: the 50th anniversary of the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty and 60 years since the beginning of the Korean War.
The assumption was that the Americans had withheld information vital to Japan's security and only released details after the North Korean missile had splashed down in the Pacific.
The Kay approach would, instead, reinforce U.S. security guarantees to South Korea and Japan, including a doubling of American forces on the Korean Peninsula.
Set in the dense forests of the Kii Mountains overlooking the Pacific Ocean, three sacred sites - Yoshino and Omine, Kumano Sanzan, Koyasan - linked by pilgrimage routes to the ancient capital cities of Nara and Kyoto, reflect the fusion of Shinto, rooted in the ancient tradition of nature worship in Japan, and Buddhism, which was introduced from China and the Korean Peninsula.
With property and share values taking a dive in Japan, many of the Korean-Japanese are now struggling to repay their loans.
Further, if Japan rearms and goes nuclear in reaction to the new circumstances on the Korean peninsula, the rationale for the U.S. military presence there may be diminished as well.
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