Japan and China plan to hold in Tokyo as soon as April the first bilateral security talks in four years between their foreign and defense ministries, diplomatic sources said Wednesday.
Japan is expected to use the occasion to explain its plans to enact legislation to put into effect last July's Cabinet decision to reinterpret the Constitution to allow the country to exercise the right to collective self-defense, according to Japan's (Kyodo) News Agency.
Japan is also likely to ask China to make its military spending more transparent and explain the reasons behind its military expansion, the sources said.