(VOVworld) –Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida met his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi and South Korean counterpart Yun Byung-Se in Tokyo on Tuesday to discuss ways to maintain trilateral cooperation and boost East Asia integration.

From left to right: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, and South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-Se. (Photo: AFP/VNA)

The two-day meeting was held amidst differences regarding territorial disputes, the deployment of the US Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system in South Korea, and North Korea’s nuclear program. This has been the first meeting among the three countries’ foreign ministers since March 2015, and the eighth meeting since the trilateral mechanism was created. This meeting has been the first held in Tokyo in five years.