Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi at a meeting on November 25 in the port city of Busan, South Korea. (Source: Kyodo)

The meeting between Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi followed a summit between the two countries' leaders in San Francisco last week, amid a bitter dispute over the release of waste from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean.

At the meeting, Foreign Minister Wang Yi expressed his willingness to cooperate with Japan to bring bilateral relations back on the “right track”.

At the summit, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to maintain expert-level consultations on the waste issue and establish "win-win" relations based on common strategic interests.

At a meeting earlier this week in Beijing with Foreign Minister Kamikawa, Wang Yi called for independent monitoring of the discharge.

The two diplomats' meeting on November 25 came ahead of a trilateral foreign ministers' meeting with South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin on November 26. This will be the first trilateral (South Korea-China-Japan) foreign ministers' meeting since 2019.