The Japanese government granted visas on Monday to the North Korean men's and women's teams set to play in the East Asian Football Federation's upcoming E-1 Football Championship, government sources said.North Korean nationals are banned from entering Japan in principle as part of Tokyo's unilateral sanctions against the North, which has continued to develop and test nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles.The teams are being treated as a special case, the sources said. Japan, which does not maintain diplomatic relations with North Korea, issued the visas at its embassy in Beijing.The North …READ FULL ARTICLE
