Tokyo [Japan], March 31 (ANI): Japan Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi is all set to go to China on a two-day journey, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan confirmed on Friday.
Hayashi, who’s all set to go to Beijing for the primary time in over three years since 2019, will kickstart his journey on April 1.
The go to of Japanese FM comes at a time when ties between the 2 nations stay tense over points together with Beijing’s latest detention of a Japanese businessman and a territorial row, Kyodo News reported.
Kyodo News reported citing the official sources stated that Hayashi will meet along with his Chinese counterpart Qin Gang for the primary time since Wang Yi’s alternative by the previous Chinese ambassador to the United States in late December.
According to the sources, Hayashi will in all probability demand that China free the Japanese one who has been jailed because the starting of the month on accusations of partaking in espionage.
Relations between the 2 Asian international locations have change into tenser because of the imprisonment of an worker of the Japanese pharmaceutical firm Astellas Pharma Ltd.
Chinese coast guard warships have often violated Japanese territorial waters across the Senkaku Islands, that are ruled by Japan and are positioned within the East China Sea however are claimed by China as Diaoyu.
The journey was organized after Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida agreed to arrange Hayashi’s journey to China throughout their preliminary face-to-face assembly in Bangkok in November, Kyodo News reported. (ANI)