Senior Taliban officials make first known visit to Japan since takeover

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- High-level Taliban officials have arrived in Japan, their hosts Japanese grant-making organization Nippon Foundation said Monday, making it the first known visit by the Taliban since their takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021.

Nippon Foundation said the officials are expected to seek insights for future nation building, without disclosing details of the schedule due to "security reasons." But the Japanese government said its Foreign Ministry's special representative for Afghanistan, Toshihide Ando, plans to meet with the delegation.