SEOUL -- South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol fondly recalled childhood memories of visits to Japan to see his father, an economist who attended Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo in the late 1960s, in an exclusive interview with The Yomiuri Shimbun in Seoul on Tuesday.
"I can still see in my mind's eye [the streets of] Kunitachi where Hitotsubashi University is located," Yoon, 62, said.
When his father, now professor emeritus of Yonsei University, was a professor at Hanyang University, he attended Hitotsubashi University for a year in 1966. Japan and South Korea normalized diplomatic relations in 1965.
