South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se met his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida on Sunday evening.

South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se met his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida on Sunday evening, according to local media.

A press release out of Seoul said talks would focus on matters of mutual interest.

Yun was making his first trip to Tokyo since assuming his current office shortly after South Korean President Park Geun-hye’s inauguration.

The minister had been due to go to Japan in 2013, but canceled the plan in protest at visits by leading Japanese officials to the Yasukuni Shrine, which commemorates 14 Class-A war criminals among those who lost their lives in service of the country’s former empire.