Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday he was not joking about signing a peace treaty with Japan and emphasized the need to create a comfortable environment for settling Moscow's disagreements with Tokyo.

Tokyo hopes that Pyongyang will use the opportunity created by the dialogue that has recently started between North Korea and the United States, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Wednesday.

Tokyo would like to further improve relations with Beijing and bring them to a new level, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Wednesday at a plenary session of the the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) in Russia's Vladivostok

Tokyo feels that the results of the meeting held between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum are positive, Takeshi Osuga, the spokesman for the Japanese Foreign Ministry, told Sputnik on Tuesday.

Japan is not working on the agenda for the meeting between Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un yet, Takeshi Osuga, the spokesman for the Japanese Foreign Ministry, told Sputnik on Tuesday

Moscow is ready to boost cooperation with Tokyo based upon the principles of good neighborliness and mutual respect for one another's interests, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday

South Korean President Moon Jae-in will send his special representatives to China and Japan to brief both nations on the outcomes of the South Korean delegation's recent visit to Pyongyang, media reported on Friday.

The new US special representative for North Korea, Stephen Biegun, will visit South Korea, China, and Tokyo next week to discuss denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, the State Department said in a press release on Thursday.