Tokyo hopes that, through direct talks with Beijing, it can encourage restraint on the Taiwan situation and China's provocative behavior around the Senkakus.
Yoshimasa Hayashi in a parliamentarian group recently promised to provide across-the-board cooperation with Beijing. He’ s now Japan’s foreign minister.
The Group of Seven industrial democracies, at their annual summit meeting in August, should have agreed to urge China to recognize Hong Kong’s high-level autonomy and...