Nakasone 'may visit' Beijing soon

Japanese Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone is likely to visit Beijing later this month and will have the escalating dispute over the Diaoyu Islands high on his agenda, the Seoul-based Yonhap News Agency reported on Thursday.

The report quoted sources close to China's Foreign Ministry as saying Nakasone will meet with his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi in Beijing in the final 10 days of the month.

They are likely to discuss issues such as the Diaoyu Islands, the impasse on the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue, and Northeast Asian security and cooperation in the financial crisis, it said.