Japanese lawmakers to meet Chinese Premier Li on Jan. 15

A senior Japanese ruling party lawmaker told reporters in Beijing on Tuesday that he and a fellow legislator will meet with Chinese Premier Li Qiang the following day and that they intend to hand him a personal letter from Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba addressed to President Xi Jinping.Hiroshi Moriyama, secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party, and his Komeito counterpart, Makoto Nishida, are leading a group of Japanese ruling bloc lawmakers on a three-day trip to China through Wednesday. The LDP No. 2 said they agreed with senior Chinese officials to make joint efforts to…READ FULL ARTICLE