Tokyo will resume talks with Pyongyang on Aug. 29 for the first time in four years, mainly in hopes of retrieving the remains of Japanese who died in the North near the 1945 end of Japan's colonial rule of the peninsula, Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura said Tuesday.
Fujimura said the talks, to be held in Beijing, also will "definitely" include North Korea's abductions of Japanese nationals.
He characterized the talks as "preliminary consultations," where various outstanding issues between the two countries will be sorted out and will be followed "promptly" by full-scale consultations.