Abe vows to improve Sino-Japanese ties
Updated: 2012-12-22 15:26
(Xinhua)
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Shinzo Abe, Japan's incoming prime minister and the leader of Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), speaks during a meeting at the LDP headquarters in Tokyo December 21, 2012. [Photo/Agencies]
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"Japan-China relations are one of the most important bilateral ties," Abe told Japanese reporters. Abe was in Yamaguchi to visit the cemetery of his father--late Japanese foreign minister Shintaro Abe.
"We want to make efforts to return to the starting point of developing a mutually reciprocal relationship" with China, he added.
Abe is considering sending LDP Vice President Masahiko Komura, head of the Japanese association of lawmakers for friendship with China, to China as a special envoy, the report said, quoting people familiar with the matter.
LDP won a landslide victory in Japan's lower house election last week, enabling Abe to become Japan's next prime minister. Abe is expected to take post of prime minister on December 26.
Sino-Japanese ties have soured after the Japanese government " purchased" some of the Diaoyu islands in the east China Sea in September.
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