In the year since he'd become Prime Minister, Sadazane Konishi had grown ever-more used to meetings such as these. Usually, they didn't tend to make the news quite like meetings with the Emperor of course, but that was more often a result of all the pomp and ceremony that came with it rather than any substance. No, this was entirely a matter of business, which tended to be the case as he rarely seemed to have the time for anything else these days. Today's order of business? A meeting with the General Secretary of Jiayuan, Tai Wenjian, ostensibly the first time a leader of Jiayuan had visited the country in... Well, decades at least if not the first time, ever. He couldn't remember, not that it mattered given the circumstances.
Eventually, the Jiayuanese leader and his entourage would arrive, and following the standard affair of ceremony—the playing of the anthems of both nations, the introductions and other things—they would be ushered into a meeting-room within the Prime Minister's residence, located within the shadow of the Imperial Diet. Once everyone had settled in, Sadazane would speak up.
"So, Mr. General Secretary, where would you like to begin?" He asked, glancing briefly to one of his advisors before returning his gaze to his foreign counterpart. "Now, I could go either way, but seeing as you requested this meeting, I figured you might have some idea of where to start, even if it may perhaps be most logical to discuss matters of trade first, no?"
