Japan should make the best of China's rapid development and forge ahead with greater cooperation, Wang Chen, minister of the State Council Information Office, told Japanese media.China threat exaggerated Japan should 'open up' to Chinese markets Economic co-op Journalists need to tell stories of common man Wang Chen meets media
Premier Wen Jiabao and Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan talked by telephone on Sunday, marking the official activation of the China-Japan prime ministerial hotline, the Foreign Ministry said.
Chinese President Hu Jintao met new Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan in Canada's largest city of Toronto on Sunday to discuss bilateral ties.
Recalling efforts to establish a communication channel between Beijing and Tokyo six years ago to revive relations damaged after a former Japanese prime minister visited Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, Japan's chief Cabinet secretary on Sunday assured Chinese elites he would help ensure successful cooperation between Japan and China.
Japan's new liberal prime minister shunned a visit to a shrine that has outraged Asian neighbors for honoring war criminals, breaking from past governments' tradition and instead apologizing on Sunday for the suffering World War II caused.