Abe seeks talks with Putin

It is already enough to play this kind of trick with China, no need to use it with Russia. Russia is not so kind as China. Russia will happy to provide a great lesson to Japan if there is any trick.

Talk for what? Anyone needs to provide something for give-and-take during talk! which I don't think Abe can do before Japan become a real politically independent country!

Fine, I hope Abe gets his talk with Putin. But I hope he is smart enough to understand that Putin, as he demonstrated so vivedly during the Ukrainian crisis, may talk to you, but that doesn't mean he is listening, or cares one bit about your opinion. As many leaders stated during that period, Putin has his own/a different view of reality, and any opinion that runs counter to that just bounces off him.