Japan will look into holding a summit meeting between Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chinese leader Xi Jinping, the Nikkei business daily quoted Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi as saying in an interview Friday.
Sino-Japanese ties have long been plagued with a territorial dispute over a group of tiny uninhabited East China Sea islets, the legacy of Japan's wartime aggression and regional rivalry.
The meeting could take a form of in-person talks or telephone conversation, but it will more likely be an online conference sometime this fall, the Nikkei said.