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The foreign ministers of South Korea, China and Japan will meet in Seoul, the South Korean capital, for the first time in three years this weekend after bitter disputes over history and territory scaled back high-level contacts and raised security fears. Anti-Japan sentiment in South Korea and China has grown sharply in recent years over what critics see as Japan’s growing nationalism and its push to obscure its brutal colonization of the Korean Peninsula and invasion of China in the first half of the 20th century. The annual trilateral talks have been suspended since they were last held in China in April 2012. No major breakthrough is expected from Saturday’s meeting, but analysts say resuming the talks is a meaningful step toward easing tension. The foreign ministers of South Korea, China and Japan will meet in Seoul, the South Korean capital, for the first time in three years this weekend after bitter disputes over history and territory scaled back high-level contacts and raised security fears. Anti-Japan sentiment in South Korea and China has grown sharply in recent years over what critics see as Japan’s growing nationalism and its push to obscure its brutal colonization of the Korean Peninsula and invasion of China in the first half of the 20th century. The talks have been suspended since they were last held in China in 2012. No major breakthrough is expected, but analysts say resuming the talks is a meaningful step toward easing tension.