Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung confirmed the “strategic significance” of their nations’ ties throughout a gathering in Nara on Tuesday, with the 2 agreeing to spice up cooperation on financial safety and reaching a deal on DNA testing for Korean wartime laborers who perished in Japan.
The assembly was the 2 leaders’ first try at “shuttle diplomacy,” or routine mutual visits to one another’s nation, underneath Takaichi’s authorities. It got here only a week after Lee visited China for talks with chief Xi Jinping amid an ongoing row between Beijing and Tokyo that has pushed ties right down to recent lows.
“Starting with this go to, I hope to additional elevate Japan-South Korea relations to new heights,“ Takaichi stated at a joint press announcement.
