The government is trying to arrange a trilateral summit with South Korea and the United States for this month in a bid to thaw Tokyo's frozen relations with Seoul, an official said Wednesday.
But Seoul appears cool to the idea of a meeting between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, President Park Geun-hye and President Barack Obama on the sidelines of a global nuclear security summit in The Hague, Netherlands, on March 24 and 25.
Japan hopes that with mutual ally Obama in the room, Park would be willing to sit down face to face with Abe, something the Japanese leader has sought unsuccessfully since he took office 15 months ago.