The foreign ministers of Japan and China held their first meeting on November 25 in the South Korean port city of Busan to discuss ways to stabilize bilateral relations.
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| Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa and her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi at a meeting on November 25 in the port city of Busan, South Korea. (Source: Kyodo) |
The meeting between Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa and her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi took place after a summit between the leaders of the two countries in San Francisco last week, amid a heated dispute over the discharge of waste from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean .
During the meeting, Foreign Minister Wang Yi expressed his willingness to cooperate with Japan to get bilateral relations back on track.
At the summit, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to maintain expert-level consultations on emissions issues and establish "mutually beneficial" relationships based on shared strategic interests.
At a meeting earlier this week in Beijing with Foreign Minister Kamikawa, Wang Yi called for independent monitoring of emissions.
The November 25 meeting between the two diplomats took place ahead of a trilateral meeting of foreign ministers with South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin on November 26. This will be the first trilateral (South Korea-China-Japan) foreign minister-level meeting since 2019.
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