Japan and China, in their government-level meeting, failed again Thursday to settle a trade row over Japan's emergency import curbs, according to officials from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
In the one-day meeting in Beijing, the two sides merely agreed to continue talks by holding similar meetings more often, the officials said.
Japan set a self-imposed Dec. 21 deadline for deciding whether to formally slap "safeguard" curbs against three farm imports that mostly come from China.