Japan PM to visit Russia for summit with Putin next month
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe raises his hand as he walks at his official residence in Tokyo, Japan March 16, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai/ TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit Russia in late April for a summit with President Vladimir Putin, Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said on Monday. Abe has pledged to resolve a decades-old territorial dispute with Russia over a string of western Pacific islands, seized by Soviet troops at the end of World War Two, in the hope of building better ties to counter a rising China. ...
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