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Top Japanese, U.S. diplomats to meet next month

Xinhua, February 25, 2015 Adjust font size:

Top diplomats of Japan and the United States are expected to meet in mid-March in efforts to arrange a U.S. visit by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in April and to discuss a series of issues of common concern, local media reported on Wednesday.

The meeting between Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and his U.S. counterpart John Kerry is expected to cover counterterrorism as two Japanese nationals were killed recently by the Islamic State militants, local report cited unnamed diplomatic source as saying.

Kishida and Kerry would also discuss Japan's defense legislation related to bilateral defense relationship and the thorny and deadlocked issues over the U.S.-led Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade talks.

Abe plans to visit the United States late April through early May for a summit with U.S. President Barack Obama. Endi