The foreign and defence ministers of Japan and Russia agreed on Saturday to cooperate in fighting terrorism and piracy as the neighbours, still at odds over territorial woes, held an unprecedented security dialogue. Japan’s Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and Defence Minister Itsunori Onodera held a so-called ‘2+2’ meeting with Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu at the government’s guest house in Tokyo. It was the first such diplomatic-defence talks between the two countries, which remain at odds over the sovereignty of a cluster of windswept islands to Japan’s north and Russia’s far east. During the one-day meeting, the two sides agreed to carry out joint drills between Japan’s Maritime Self-Defence Force and the Russian Navy.