More than 100 influential Japanese entrepreneurs are visiting China in search of business opportunities brought about by Chinese economic reforms.
Newly arrived US Ambassador Caroline Kennedy presented her credentials to Japan's emperor on Tuesday, traveling by horse-drawn carriage into the Imperial Palace in downtown Tokyo.
A senior Chinese official urged here on Monday the Japanese government to reflect on its decision to slash its greenhouse gas emissions target.
Japan on Friday drastically weakened its greenhouse-gas reduction target, bowing to the impact of a shuttered nuclear power industry but drawing international criticism at United Nations climate change talks.
A Chinese official has expressed strong disappointment in Japan's new target of cutting carbon emissions by 3.8 percent by 2020 compared to its 2005 levels.
Shanghai-born Yan Jun (L), 26, receives a certificate of appreciation from Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for his rescue work in saving a nine-year-old boy from a typhoon-swollen river in Osaka on September 16, 2013, at Abe's official residence in Tokyo November 13, 2013.
China on Tuesday urged the Japanese government to heed advice to improve bilateral ties through concrete action.
Japan was urged by a Chinese spokesman on Monday to stop its provocative talk after its country's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe depicted China as a threat to regional security.
China on Friday demanded that Japan protect the safety and rights of Chinese crew members days after a Taiwanese trawling boat was detained in waters off Kagoshima, Japan, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Friday.
China's exports and imports to and from Japan slowed in October from previous months despite bilateral trade showing signs of improvement.
The War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (1937-45) and modern international relationships were the topics of a major conference attended by 130 international scholars at Chongqing University on Friday.
A meeting of senior diplomats from China, Japan and the ROK failed to agree on holding a trilateral summit amid Japan's tensions with its neighbors.