International relationsUS and Japan to bring back bottom-up diplomacy under Biden
Obama-era Japan hands like Campbell offer ready-made connections
From left: Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, U.S. secretary of state nominee Antony Blinken and President-elect Joe Biden. (Blinken and Biden photos by Reuters)
TAKUYA MIZOROGI, MASAYA KATO and SHOHEI KANAYA, Nikkei staff writers
January 20, 2021 07:09 JST
TOKYO -- Working-level talks will replace outgoing President Donald Trump's top-down approach in U.S. diplomacy with Japan, with the shift likely helped along by many familiar faces from President-elect Joe Biden's days as vice president in the Obama administration.