BUSAN Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa blasted a recent South Korean court ruling that ordered the Japanese government to pay compensation to former “comfort women” and called on her counterpart to take appropriate steps.
A Seoul High Court ruling that orders Japan to compensate former “comfort women” will likely be ignored by Tokyo and probably won’t strain bilateral relations, Japanese officials said.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will leave Japan on Nov. 15 to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco as Tokyo and Beijing are arranging for his first meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in a year.
Chinese President Xi Jinping will skip a Group of 20 summit in India on Sept. 9-10, dashing Tokyo’s hopes for quickly breaking the deadlock over Japan’s discharge of treated radioactive water through top-level dialogue.