{"id":55349,"date":"2023-05-21T16:46:27","date_gmt":"2023-05-21T07:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/21\/japan-and-south-korea-leaders-mend-fences-in-visit-to-hiroshima-memorial"},"modified":"2023-05-21T16:46:27","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T07:46:27","slug":"japan-and-south-korea-leaders-mend-fences-in-visit-to-hiroshima-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55349","title":{"rendered":"Japan and South Korea leaders mend fences in visit to Hiroshima memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joint visit during G7 summit seen as further evidence of determination to overcome longstanding friction<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s prime minister, Fumio Kishida, and the South Korean president, Yoon Suk Yeol, have paid their respects at a memorial to the tens of thousands of Korean victims of the atomic bombing, in a further sign of improving ties between the north-east Asian neighbours.<\/p>\n<p>The pair, accompanied by their wives, laid bouquets of white flowers before lowering their heads at the memorial in the city\u2019s peace park on Sunday on the sidelines of the G7 summit, where Yoon is one of several non-member leaders taking part in \u201coutreach\u201d sessions.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/21\/japan-and-south-korea-leaders-mend-fences-in-visit-to-hiroshima-memorial\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joint visit during G7 summit seen as further evidence of determination to overcome longstanding frictionJapan\u2019s prime minister, Fumio Kishida, and the South Korean president, Yoon Suk Yeol, have paid their respects at a memorial to the tens of thousand&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3393,"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":[41,637,88,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-g7","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\/55349","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\/3393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55350,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55349\/revisions\/55350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}