Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida held talks with South Korean President Yun Sok-yul in an effort to strengthen economic relations between the two countries.
The visit follows the leaders’ agreement to end trade restrictions during a meeting held last March in the Japanese capital Tokyo.
Japan’s Prime Minister stressed his desire to strengthen economic relations between the two countries in the coming period, to end the war period and differences between them.
Japan and South Korea are major United States allies, but share a painful past associated with Japan’s brutal occupation of the Korean peninsula between 1910 and 1945.