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On Sunday, Japan held a memorial service to commemorate wartime laborers at the Sado Mine, a site in Niigata Prefecture with a complex history before and during World War II. Historians say around 1,500 Korean men were forced to toil in Sado during Japan’s colonial rule over Korea. The issue gained new prominence with Japan’s […]
The international community’s efforts in tackling the global plastics crisis have reached a pivotal moment, leading up to the fifth and last scheduled intergovernmental negotiating committee (INC-5) to take place in Busan, South Korea starting on November 25. If countries agree to an international framework to reduce the production and consumption of plastics, the world […]
Visualizing the Number of Industrial Robots by Country This was originally posted on our Voronoi app. Download the app for free on iOS or Android and discover incredible data-driven charts from a variety of trusted sources. The world is automating faster than ever, hitting a new record of 3.9 million operational industrial robots in 2022. […]
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un urged the country’s military to improve capabilities for fighting a war, state media KCNA said on Monday, amid suggestions that Pyongyang may dispatch as many as 100,000 troops to aid Russia’s war against Ukraine. Kim delivered the speech to a conference of battalion commanders and political instructors held in Pyongyang […]
Mapped: Where Male Circumcision Is Most Common in the World This was originally posted on our Voronoi app. Download the app for free on iOS or Android and discover incredible data-driven charts from a variety of trusted sources. Health organizations are currently divided on whether male circumcision is beneficial or not. Some research suggests it […]
The president said stronger ties with South Korea and Japan are working, but did not address whether President-elect Donald J. Trump would continue his approach when he takes office in January. Source link
Ranked: How Often People Go to the Doctor, by Country This was originally posted on our Voronoi app. Download the app for free on iOS or Android and discover incredible data-driven charts from a variety of trusted sources. If a country’s average doctor visits are high, it could be easy to assume the population isn’t […]
China’s Economy is Larger Than 30 Asian Economies This was originally posted on our Voronoi app. Download the app for free on iOS or Android and discover incredible data-driven charts from a variety of trusted sources. The world’s second-largest economy sometimes suffers from its own success: it’s hard to comprehend how big it really is. […]
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol has dusted off his golf clubs in an attempt to forge a bond with President-elect Donald Trump, an avid lover of the game. The presidential office said on Tuesday that Yoon began practising the game for the first time in eight years in preparation for a possible round of golf […]
North Korean soldiers have begun fighting against Ukraine alongside their Russian allies, the US State Department said, after Pyongyang sent thousands of troops to Russia’s Kursk region to aid the Kremlin’s war efforts. “Today I can confirm that over 10,000 DPRK soldiers have been sent to eastern Russia, and most of them have moved to […]