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S. Korean Pres. Yoon to Visit Japan March 16-17

S. Korean Pres. Yoon to Visit Japan March 16-17

   Tokyo, March 9 (Jiji Press)--South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol will visit Japan on March 16-17 for talks with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, the Japanese and South Korean governments announced Thursday.
   It will be Yoon's first visit to Japan since he took office in May 2022, and the first by a South Korean president since his predecessor, Moon Jae-in, visited the neighboring country in June 2019.
   Kishida and Yoon are expected to affirm their commitment to improving bilateral relations after the South Korean government this week announced a plan to resolve the thorny wartime labor issue between the two countries.
   Yoon is slated to brief Kishida on the plan, which calls for a South Korean foundation to pay wartime labor compensation on behalf of Japanese companies ordered to do so by South Korea's Supreme Court.
   Kishida is expected to respond favorably to the plan and show his intention to uphold the positions on history adopted by previous Japanese cabinets, including the "deep remorse and heartfelt apology" for Japan's past colonial rule expressed in the 1998 Japan-South Korea joint statement.

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