Provocative statements by Katsuto Momii, the head of Japan's public broadcaster NHK, and its board member on Japan's invasion history have been widely criticized in Japan.
China on Monday warned against any provocative action and escalation by Japan on the Diaoyu Islands issue in response to a reported plan by Japan to claim the islands in a guideline for creating school textbooks.
Japan has sent senior diplomats on far-flung missions worldwide to justify the visit by Shinzo Abe to Yasukuni Shrine, which honors war criminals.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to the Yasukuni shrine on Thursday is a grave provocation that may lead to heightened tension in the region.
Major officials with the Chinese Foreign Ministry and the Chinese ambassador in Japan will respectively make solemn representations to the Japanese ambassador in China and Japan's foreign ministry, according to the Chinese Foreign Ministry.
China on Thursday strongly condemned the shrine visit by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, saying the acts deeply hurt Asian war victims.
Negotiations should take place between Beijing and Tokyo to forge a mechanism to manage the crisis over the overlapping air defense identification zones in the East China Sea.
China's Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) will not cause regional tension, Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said on Friday.
China's newly announced air defense identification zone does not target "normal" flights by international airliners, as Chinese fighter jets patrolled the zone.
What is the ADIZ?
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said on Wednesday that there was no need for countries to panic over China's setup of the East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ).
China's Defense Ministry said it had monitored the entire progress of two unarmed US B-52 bombers that flew over disputed islands in the East China Sea.