During his visit to Japan from Friday, March 21, to Saturday, March 22, to attend the eleventh Korea-Japan-China Trilateral Foreign Ministers' Meeting, Minister of Foreign Affairs Cho Tae-yul held meetings with leading Japanese political figures, including Secretary-General of the Liberal Democratic Party Moriyama Hiroshi, former Foreign Minister Kamikawa Yoko, and Secretary-General of the Japan-Korea Parliamentarians’ Union Nagashima Akihisa.

Minister Cho asked leading Japanese political figures to play an active role in ensuring that positive Korea-Japan relations continue under any circumstances, and requested their support for Korea-Japan relations to take a leap forward as the two countries mark the 60th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations.

The Japanese figures mentioned that the improvement of Korea-Japan relations has deepened bilateral cooperation in various fields, and that it is particularly meaningful that mutual understanding and goodwill have increased through people-to-people exchanges, with approximately 12 million people from both countries traveling to each other’s countries last year. They also said that they will continue efforts to further strengthen bilateral relations on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations.