Tokyo and Seoul have long been at odds over issues related to Japan’s brutal colonial rule of Korea. Read more at straitstimes.com.
HIROSHIMA - Japan and South Korea’s leaders made a historic visit Sunday to a memorial for Koreans killed inJapanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and his South Korean counterpart Yoon Suk Yeol, joined by their wives, laid white bouquets at the stone memorial and bowed side-by-side at the site.
“This will be remembered as a courageous action by Prime Minister Kishida that paves the way for a peaceful future while expressing grief for the Korean victims of the atomic bombing,” Mr Yoon said at the top of a bilateral meeting after the memorial visit.Tokyo and Seoul, both key United States allies,over issues related to Japan’s brutal colonial rule of Korea from 1910 to 1945, including sexual slavery and forced labour.
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