TOKYO • Trade and security are separate issues that longstanding allies Japan and the United States know not to conflate, Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono has said.
"These are two different issues and I don't think anybody is mixing them up - be it in Tokyo or in Washington DC," he told The Straits Times yesterday.
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