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.
Shortly after his inauguration, Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, left, held his first meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, much sooner than former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who waited two years to do so. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Kyodo)
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