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TOKYO—Japan will consider holding a summit between Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chinese President Xi Jinping, the Nikkei Sangyo Daily newspaper reported, Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi said in an interview on Friday.
Sino-Japanese relations have long been plagued by territorial disputes over small, uninhabited islets in the East China Sea, a legacy of Japan's wartime aggression and regional rivalry.
} The meeting could take the form of a face-to-face meeting or a phone call, but the Nihon Keizai Shimbun said it will likely be an online meeting this fall. (Interviewer: Kiyoshi Takenaka, Editor: Toby Chopra)
