TOKYO -- Japan is laying the groundwork for its first joint meeting of top diplomats and defense officials with the Philippines here next month, as well as its latest round of these "two-plus-two" talks with India, Nikkei has learned.
Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin and National Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana would visit in early April for the meeting with Japanese counterparts Yoshimasa Hayashi and Nobuo Kishi.
