Japan and India to hold 2-plus-2 talks with eye on China

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An honor guard from Japan's Self-Defense Forces attends a welcoming ceremony for a 2019 meeting between Japan's and India's defense ministers in Tokyo.

MIKI OKUYAMA, TAKUYA MIZOROGI and RINTARO TOBITA, Nikkei staff writers

TOKYO -- Japan and India plan to hold a "two-plus-two" meeting of foreign and defense ministers here to discuss security cooperation as early as late April, as China ramps up activity in the East and South China seas.

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