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A college dropout has risen to become the Japan’s latest billionaire after successfully building a global noodle empire. Money in udon: Takaya Awata, the 61-year-old founder and CEO of Toridoll Holdings, currently owns a 48% stake in the company valued at $1.1 billion. Toridoll, known for its "udon noodle" Marugame Seimen restaurant chain, has seen its shares surge by nearly 50% this year as the pandemic receded and dining out regained its allure.

Takaya Awata delved into the restaurant business immediately after dropping out of Kobe City University of Foreign Studies in 1985

Shima Shimizu, the founder of Sesame Kitchen in Hong Kong that runs raw vegan cookery classes, tells Kate Whitehead how teaching people to eat better can improve society as a whole.

South Korea still sees strong momentum for resuming three-way talks with Japan and China, a meeting Seoul will host this year after a four-year hiatus prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic, a source said Wednesday amid Beijing’s criticism of Seoul’s trilateral summit Friday with the US and Japan. China says the landmark summit US President Joe Biden held with President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Ministe...

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We went straight to the source to find out what makes Sigma and other villains in Bungo Stray Dogs so easy to like and why Osamu Dazai keeps getting put into anime.

Seoul urged Beijing, Wednesday, to stop repatriating North Korean escapees against their will amid signs that China is about to resume the practice, which would put the lives of those people in grave danger after returning to their homeland.

A regional and transnational history of anarchism in Korea by Dongyoun Hwang. This book provides a history of anarchism in Korea and challenges conventional views of Korean anarchism as merely part of nationalist ideology, situating the study within a wider East Asian regional context. Following the movement after 1945, Hwang shows how anarchism in Korea was deradicalized and evolved into an idea for both social revolution and alternative national development, with emphasis on organizing and edu...

Even as the ‘China threat theory’ catches on, Seoul is left in a dilemma, as the ‘China market is so critical’ to its economy, observers say.