South China Sea | Foreign ministers from China, Japan, South Korea to meet today

The foreign ministers of China, Japan and South Korea are due to meet today in Tokyo amid frictions between Beijing and its neighbors over territorial claims and regional security.
The foreign ministries of China and Japan said Monday that Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida would chair the meeting with China’s Wang Yi and South Korea’s Yu Byung-se.
First held in 2007, the trilateral meetings resumed last year after being suspended for two years amid a sharp downturn in China-Japan relations.
Tensions between Tokyo and Beijing remain high over claims to an uninhabited East China Sea island group controlled by Japan. Ties between China and South Korea have frayed recently after Seoul approved the deployment of a U.S. missile defense system that Beijing says will harm its own security. AP