Japan to continue to seek bilateral talks with N. Korea:
Japan will continue to seek bilateral talks with North Korea on the sidelines of the six-party talks on Pyongyang's denuclearization taking place in Beijing, Chief Cabinet Secretary Takeo Kawamura said Tuesday.
Japan and North Korea will hold talks later this month, after a gap of four long years, to discuss repatriation of the remains of around 21,000 Japanese buried there during Tokyo's occupation of the peninsula at the end of World War II.