SEOUL — South Korean and Japanese lawmaker groups have been getting together for decades to promote bilateral ties and iron out rocky political issues, but they have been out of the limelight since the change of government in Tokyo last year.
Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada have both visited South Korea since the Democratic Party of Japan came to power in September, but the Japan-South Korean parliamentary league has remained practically in limbo.
The Japan-Korea Parliamentarians' Union and its South Korean counterpart, the Korea-Japan Parliamentarians' Union, had been scheduled to hold a joint general meeting in Tokyo last year before it was called off.