To use this site, please disable the ad blocking feature and reload the page.
This website uses cookies to collect information about your visit for purposes such as showing you personalized ads and content, and analyzing our website traffic. By clicking “Accept all,” you will allow the use of these cookies.
Users accessing this site from EEA countries and UK are unable to view this site without your consent. We apologize for any inconvenience caused.
The Yomiuri Shimbun South Korean President Moon Jae-in
The Yomiuri Shimbun
15:58 JST, June 15, 2021
Japan and South Korea are making arrangements for South Korean President Moon Jae-in to visit Japan in time for the Tokyo Olympics, which will open on July 23, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.
The South Korean side approached Japan with the proposal, and Japan is likely to accept.
At the time of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics held in South Korea in February 2018, then Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited South Korea to attend the opening ceremony and meet with President Moon.
South Korea has conveyed through diplomatic channels Moon’s desire to visit Japan as an expression of thanks for Abe’s visit, sources said.
Seoul hopes to hold the first in-person meeting between Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and Moon during his visit to Japan, according to the sources. However, the Japanese government is cautious about holding the meeting without any prospect that South Korea will offer solutions to the issues of so-called comfort women and the lawsuits filed by former requisitioned workers from the Korean Peninsula, which have caused bilateral relations to deteriorate.
At the G7 summit held from Friday to Sunday in Cornwall, England, the two leaders did not hold a formal meeting, but only exchanged greetings.
