Japan Affairs

What Do Shinzo Abe and Kim Jong-Un Have In Common?

Our Tokyo editors talk about South Korean attitudes toward Japan’s leader and more in this week’s podcast.

What Do Shinzo Abe and Kim Jong-Un Have In Common?
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The Diplomat’s J.T. Quigley and Angela Erika Kubo discuss Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s “South Korean approval rating,” a  productivity-tracking device that would make the NSA blush, and an upcoming video game that features the much loved (hated?) J-Pop group AKB48.

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