Japan's Abe plots warmer ties with S. Korea ahead of summit
Foreign affairsMar 23, 2014
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe indicated Sunday that he wanted Tokyo and Seoul to put wartime enmities behind them ahead of his first meeting with South Korean President Park Geun-Hye.Relations between the two countries are at their lowest ebb in years, mired in emotive issues linked to Japan's 1910-45 colonial rule and a territorial dispute, as well as Japan's use of "comfort women" in wartime brothels.Abe left Tokyo's Haneda airport for a three-day visit to the Netherlands to attend a Nucl