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Japan’s new foreign minister, Yoshimasa Hayashi, said on Saturday that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken assured him in a phone call that the US’s commitment to protecting Japan, including the southern islands claimed by China, was unwavering. Japan’s relations with China suffer from a territorial dispute over a group of Japanese-administered islands in the East China Sea called Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, as well as the legacy of Japan’s previous military invasions. “Secretary Blinken said that the US commitment to the defense of Japan, including the application of Article 5 of the Japan-US Security Treaty for...
