{"id":54897,"date":"2023-05-07T14:39:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-07T05:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/07\/japanese-pm-arrives-in-south-korea-amid-warming-ties"},"modified":"2023-05-07T22:18:27","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T13:18:27","slug":"japanese-pm-arrives-in-south-korea-amid-warming-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54897","title":{"rendered":"Japanese PM expresses sympathy with Korean victims of colonial rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fumio Kishida pays reciprocal visit to Yoon Suk-yeol as rows over Japanese  occupation are soothed<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s prime minister has expressed sympathy for the suffering of Korean forced labourers during Japan\u2019s colonial rule, as he and his South Korean counterpart renewed their resolve to overcome historical grievances and strengthen cooperation in the face of shared challenges such as North Korea\u2019s nuclear programme.<\/p>\n<p>Comments by the Japanese prime minister, Fumio Kishida, on Sunday during his second summit in less than two months with the South Korean president, Yoon Suk Yeol, are being closely watched in Seoul.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/07\/japanese-pm-arrives-in-south-korea-amid-warming-ties\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fumio Kishida pays reciprocal visit to Yoon Suk-yeol as rows over Japanese  occupation are soothedJapan\u2019s prime minister has expressed sympathy for the suffering of Korean forced labourers during Japan\u2019s colonial rule, as he and his South Korean counte&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":283,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-south-korea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54897"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54916,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54897\/revisions\/54916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}