Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken agreed on Saturday on the need to fortify their countries' alliance amid a tougher regional security environment, a Japanese government official said.
Hayashi and Blinken, who held talks on the sidelines of a meeting of Group of Seven foreign ministers in the English city of Liverpool, did not discuss the diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter
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