Japan and North Korea will hold working-level talks beginning Wednesday in Beijing to review the May 22 summit between their two leaders.
The Foreign Ministry said Monday the meeting will include an update on an investigation into 10 Japanese nationals the government believes were kidnapped to North Korea.
Akitaka Saiki, deputy director general of the ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, and his North Korean counterpart, Song Il Ho, will attend the two-day meeting.