Japan and South Korea held a teleconference Tuesday to discuss trade export controls placed on each other amid the diplomatic feud over wartime labor compensation.
The talks at the director general level were initially scheduled to take place in Seoul but had to be held remotely after the two governments implemented international travel restrictions in an effort to contain the coronavirus outbreak.
Yoichi Iida, head of the trade control department at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, represented Japan. His counterpart was Lee Ho-hyun from South Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy.