american leaders are still focused on winning, even as they re prepared to pull their combat troops out by the end of 2014. both sides have publicly refused to hold peace talks. but behind the scenes, they started negotiating in 2010. nhk world s hideki yui has been following this story, and he s the first to get interviews with members of the taliban s negotiating team. here s his exclusive story. reporter: u.s. and taliban negotiators have met at least five times over the past two years. most of the meetings took place in the doha. thank you very much. appreciate it. the taliban has a five-man negotiating team there. i was able to interview two of them. one of the negotiators was sayyed rasul, a religious leader who is said to have the trust of the taliban spiritual leader. translator: peace and reconciliation has been our demand for a long time. and it still is, even now. we want to have peace, prosperity, and the reconstruction of afghanistan. reporter: taliban nego
met in tokyo on monday. gemba said his government plans to resolve calmly based on a broad perspective. the two men agreed to work together to further damage japan s relationship with beijing. speaking afterwards, gemba urged the chinese government to maintain law and order. translator: it s unfortunate that anti-japanese protests have become so big and that some have turned violent and inflicted damage on japanese businesses. later in the day, panetta also met with japan s defense minister satoshi morimoto. panetta told reporters that tokyo and washington agreed the disputed islands are covered by the u.s./japan security treaty, but he added that the u.s. will not take sides and urged both countries to act with restraint. the united states, as a matter of policy, does not take a position with regards to competing sovereignty claims. it is extremely important that diplomatic means on both sides be used to try to constructively resolve these issues. demonstrators, angr