Lee calls for ‘even closer’ Seoul-Tokyo ties in talks with Japanese lawmakers

President Lee Jae Myung said Friday that he hoped South Korea and Japan would become "even closer neighbors" during a meeting with Ryota Takeda, chair of the Japan-Korea Parliamentarians' Union, at Cheong Wa Dae.

Lee met Takeda, a former internal affairs and communications minister who was appointed the union's new chair in March, succeeding former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, along with other members of the delegation.

"Korea and Japan are often described as 'close, yet distant neigh ...