Meeting with Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong in Beijing, Tsuge additionally referred to as on the Chinese aspect to take actions in opposition to anti-Japanese social media posts. Sun reiterated emotions of remorse and profound grief over the incident.
Tsuge’s assembly got here as Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa was set to fulfill her Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, in New York on Monday afternoon native time, for talks on the stabbing in addition to the difficulty of handled water launched from the Fukushima nuclear energy plant.