Kishida’s Final Summit with South Korea’s Yoon

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The final encounter between South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and retiring Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is expected to be a major diplomatic move. This meeting serves as a message to Kishida’s prospective successors about the significance of preserving solid bilateral relations in addition to demonstrating support for South Korea. Under the influence of U.S. President Joe Biden, Kishida and Yoon have managed to reverse the downward spiral in Japan-South Korea relations, a situation that had reached its nadir due to historical grievances stemming from Japan’s occupation of Korea from 1910 to 1945. Diplomatic and trade tensions had severely strained ties between the two nations for decades.

















