Katsuji Nakazawa is a Tokyo-based senior staff and editorial writer at Nikkei. He spent seven years in China as a correspondent and later as China bureau chief. He was the 2014 recipient of the Vaughn-Ueda International Journalist prize.
It was July 5 in Beijing and Chinese Premier Li Qiang was meeting with a delegation from Japan led by a former speaker of Japan's House of Representatives who has also served as minister of foreign affairs.