Fumio Kishida, the Japanese Prime Minister will be heading to Seoul today, Sunday, May 7 (his first bilateral visit in more than a decade) — as Seoul and Tokyo look forward to mending ties in the face of growing threats from North Korea.
Both East Asian neighbors have long been at loggerheads over historic issues linked to Japan’s brutal 1910 to 1945 colonial occupation of the Korean peninsula.
But presently, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has made resetting ties with Japan a top priority and was in Tokyo in March for a key fence-mending visit.
This mending of bonds is coming after Kishida and Yoon had agreed during a summit in March, to end its fight for trade curbs, with Kishida inviting the South Korean leader to a G7 meeting in Hiroshima this May March summit.
