Japan is arranging to send Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi to South Korea to attend President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol's inauguration ceremony next week, government sources said Monday.
Seoul had hoped that Prime Minister Fumio Kishida would attend the event on May 10, seeing it as a move that could help improve their countries' soured relations, according to the sources.
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