Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida held talks on Sunday with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yul. The visit comes after the two agreed to end-for-tat trade restrictions at a meeting in March in Tokyo.

Japan and South Korea are major U.S. allies, but they share a painful past linked to Japan's brutal occupation of the Korean peninsula between 1910 and 1945. The efforts to restore relations between the two countries come amid rising tensions on the peninsula, where North Korea is stepping up its weapons tests.