Japan to look into leaders’ summit with China

Japan will look into holding a summit meeting between Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chinese leader Xi Jinping, the Nikkei business daily quoted Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi as saying in an interview Friday.

Sino-Japanese ties have long been plagued with a territorial dispute over a group of tiny uninhabited East China Sea islets, the legacy of Japan’s wartime aggression and regional rivalry.