Tokyo and Seoul will hold director general-level talks in the South Korean capital on Wednesday to discuss issues including Japan’s wartime sexual enslavement of Korean women, Japan’s Foreign Ministry said Sunday.
At the talks, Japan intends to lay the groundwork for a summit between Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Park Geun-hye. In contrast, South Korea wants solving the so-called comfort women issue to be the top priority.
Junichi Ihara, head of the Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, and Lee Sang-deok, director general of the South Korean Foreign Ministry's Northeast Asian Affairs Bureau, are expected to attend.