Advertisement During his recent visit to South Korea, Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio showed sympathy for the painful past of the Korean people but did not dare to elaborate on what and who inflicted that pain upon them – Japan’s colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula from 1910 to 1945. At a joint press conference … Read more
Advertisement On May 7, Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio and South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol met for the second time this year. After 12 years of stalled talks due to historical disputes, Kishida’s visit to Seoul signaled a return to shuttle diplomacy. The signs were clear. Kishida expressed remorse toward Korean victims of Japanese wartime … Read more
Advertisement South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol held a summit meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio in Seoul on Sunday. It was the first time that a Japanese prime minster had come to Seoul for a bilateral summit meeting since 2011. In March, Yoon visited Tokyo as a follow-up step to his foreign minister’s announcement on resolving the … Read more
Tokyo Report | Diplomacy | East Asia On May 7, Japan’s prime minister will reciprocate President Yoon’s trip to Tokyo. Kishida will be the first Japanese leader to visit South Korea since 2018. South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol (left) holds a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio after the 10th High-Level Meeting of the Friends of CTBT (Comprehensive … Read more
Advertisement Prime Minister Kishida Fumio’s new capitalism seeks to supplant the long-standing neoliberal policies that have dominated Japan since the 1980s, including the country’s more recent shift to “shareholder capitalism.” Instead, the Kishida administration is pursuing a more inclusive “stakeholder capitalism” and aims to stimulate a “virtuous cycle of growth and distribution” to increase wages … Read more
Advertisement Japan and South Korea are finally emerging from their long diplomatic stalemate. In a surprise move, Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio will make a two-day visit to Seoul starting on May 7 to meet with President Yoon Suk-yeol. This is a reciprocal trip, coming less than two months after Yoon’s trip to Tokyo in … Read more