TOKYO, April 10 -- Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan issued the following news release:

On the morning of April 10, for approximately 30 minutes, Mr. FUNAKOSHI Takehiro, Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan, held a phone call with the Honorable Christopher Landau, Deputy Secretary of State of the United States of America during his visit to Australia. The overview of the meeting is as follows.

Two sides, building on the outcomes of the Prime Minister TAKAICHI's visit to the United States, affirmed that Japan and the United States would advance high-quality bilateral cooperation in concrete terms across a wide range of areas, such as the economy including economic security, and security, and strongly promote a Free and Open Indo-P...