Prime Minister Fumio Kishida agreed with South Korea's President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol in a telephone conversation Friday morning that the two countries would work together to improve their relations. They also agreed to hold face-to-face talks as soon as possible.
Kishida told media after talking with Yoon that he told the next president, "We need to improve the friendly and cooperative relations that Japan and South Korea have established since the normalization of diplomatic relations."
