Japan Still Pushing China for Explanation of Schoolboy’s Killing
- New Japanese foreign minister has first call with Chinese side
- Japan also protests recent airspace intrusion by Chinese plane
Takeshi Iwaya
Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg
Japan’s new foreign minister asked China’s government to provide a proper accounting of the facts in the stabbing death of a schoolboy in China last month, in a sign the new government in Tokyo will continue to push Beijing to explain the attack.
Japan wants an explanation as soon as possible, its new foreign minister, Takeshi Iwaya, told his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in their first phone call, according to a statement from the Japanese government on Wednesday.