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Japan ’s new foreign minister, Yoshimasa Hayashi, said on Saturday US Secretary of State Antony Blinken assured him in a phone call that Washington’s commitment to defending Tokyo, including southern islets claimed by China, was unwavering. Tokyo’s ties with Beijing have been plagued by a territorial dispute over a group of Japanese-administered islands in the East China Sea , called the Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, as well as the legacy of Japan’s past military aggression. “Secretary Blinken stated that US commitment to defending Japan, including the application of Article 5 of the Japan-US Security Treaty for the...
