TOKYO/SEOUL – Beaming with smiles, Japan’s and South Korea’s leaders clinked beer glasses and sat down for a hearty supper of omurice (omelette rice) on Thursday.
It wasn’t the only occasion in the watershed bilateral visit – the first by a South Korean President to Japan in 12 years – to radiate plenty of warmth. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida likened their meeting to cherry blossoms blooming in the spring after a frosty winter.
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