Kishida and Xi agree to seek ways to end Fukushima wastewater spat

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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, left, meets Chinese President Xi Jinping in San Francisco on Nov. 17 for the first face-to-face China-Japan summit in a year. © Kyodo

KEN MORIYASU and YIFAN YU, Nikkei staff writers

SAN FRANCISCO -- In their first meeting in a year, the leaders of Japan and China on Thursday agreed to find a solution to resolve their differences over the release of waste water from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

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