Prime Minister Fumio Kishida stated his “coronary heart aches” over Japan’s colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula, talking after a Sunday assembly with South Korean chief Yoon Suk-yeol in Seoul — the primary such bilateral go to by a Japanese chief in additional than 12 years — with the 2 hailing the velocity of progress of their international locations’ bettering relationship.
The go to, which got here on the heels of a March journey to Tokyo by Yoon, was largely centered on sustaining momentum for bettering ties after the connection plummeted in 2018 to its lowest level in years over wartime historical past and different points.
Nevertheless it additionally noticed the 2 leaders agree on an area of points, together with the dispatch of South Korean specialists to Japan on Could 23 to conduct a scientific evaluation as part of “significant steps” to assist the South Korean public higher grasp Tokyo’s plan to launch handled radioactive water into the ocean from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear energy plant.
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