Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to visit South Korea

On September 3, the South Korean Presidential Office announced that Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will visit the country next week and attend a bilateral summit with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol.

Prime Minister Kishida will make a visit on September 6-7 and attend the Japan-Korea Summit with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol.

At the conference, the two leaders will review the achievements of cooperation between the two countries and discuss ways to further promote bilateral, regional and international cooperation.

The Japan-South Korea summit comes as Mr. Kishida prepares to end his tenure as prime minister, with a legacy of improving long-strained relations with Seoul.

This will be the 12th summit between the two leaders in just the past two years and could also be the last summit before Mr. Kishida steps down as Prime Minister after three years in office and does not run for re-election.

In a press conference last week, President Yoon Suk Yeol said he aims to maintain cooperation with Tokyo regardless of who becomes the new prime minister after the upcoming election of the president of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).