TOKYO - Japanese foreign Minister Taro Kono's tweet of a smiling "selfie" with a key Chinese government spokeswoman on his recent visit to Beijing has left some of Tokyo's political and bureaucratic veterans concerned that it sends too soft a message amid China's assertiveness in the East China Sea.
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