THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
December 21, 2023 at 18:52 JST
Records released by the Foreign Ministry show the minutes of a January 1992 meeting between the foreign ministers of Japan and China. (Hikaru Uchida)
Negotiations for the first Japanese emperor to visit China in 1992 were kept so secret that the prime minister at the time, Kiichi Miyazawa, complained he was not sufficiently consulted. [Read More]
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