Investment still faces tough going due to disputes, say experts
Although trade between China and Japan is likely to continue to decline in the fourth quarter of this year, the pace of contraction may ease, experts said on Monday.
Japanese secondhand vehicle sales in September slides 4.3 percent on yearly basis to 293,040 units, falling for the fifth consecutive month.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said here Thursday that the US-led Trans- Pacific Partnership (TPP) is "a pathway to realize a market befitting the growth center of the 21st century."
Chinese customs officials have intercepted 952 tons of imported radioactive scrap metal from Japan in the coastal city of Taizhou in east China's Zhejiang Province, local authorities said Sunday.
Eighty-two years after Japan's invasion of China and one year since Japanese government's "purchase" of China's Diaoyu Islands, bilateral relations mired in history have witnessed the cooling down of economic exchanges, despite remaining hopes among business people.
Spring Airlines is looking to replicate its successful business model by setting up an aviation company in Japan, sources said.
China-Japan trade has posted consistent declines since early this year, with words and actions by Japanese politicians and government to blame.
Foreign trade between China and Japan slumped 8.8 percent year-on-year in the seven months from January through July, according to the Ministry of Commerce.
Japanese exports to China in the first half of this year decreased to the lowest level in four years amid strained ties between the top two economies in Asia as well as China's economic slowdown.
Economic and trade cooperation between China and Japan will get back on track if there is no further deterioration of the already strained ties.
Territorial disputes between China and Japan led Chinese consumers to favor South Korean products over Japanese ones.