REUTERS
January 5, 2022 at 13:50 JST
Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi speaks at a news conference on Nov. 11. (Amane Sugawara)
Japan’s foreign and defense ministers will hold talks with their U.S. counterparts in a “two-plus-two” format on Friday to discuss security issues, Japan’s Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.
The announcement of the discussions by the two key allies came just hours after North Korea conducted an apparent ballistic missile launch.
Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi and Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi will hold talks with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin via video link on Friday, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Discussions will center around the overall security situation faced by the two allies as well as those concerning “a free and open Indo-Pacific,” it added.
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