The 2014 China-Shandong Fair opened Tuesday morning in the western Japanese commercial city of Osaka with more than 180 companies and factories from the Chinese province.
A Sino-Japanese symposium on industry-university-research (IUR) cooperation was jointly held on March 18 at Tsinghua Science Park, Beijing.
China has added its voice to international concerns over Japan's large stockpile of nuclear materials, saying the Japanese have exceeded their needs in nuclear power.
Japan will hand over "sensitive nuclear material" to the United States for destruction as part of the efforts to "prevent unauthorized actors, criminals, or terrorists from acquiring such materials."
Japanese leaders should reflect on Japan's history of aggression, correct mistakes and win the trust of Asian neighbors and international society, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said Monday.
Japan reiterated that it will uphold its apology for wartime sex slavery after an aide to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called for a new statement on the issue.
While the world is wondering what the 2014 Nuclear Security Summit, held on Monday and Tuesday in The Hague, the Netherlands, will achieve, Tokyo is busy working on a draft statement, due to be considered in a nuclear disarmament meeting in Hiroshima next month, aimed at urging China to engage in nuclear arms reduction talks with the United States and Russia. As a driving force behind the efforts to pressure China, Japan is choosing to ignore the gap between the size of China's nuclear arsenal and those of the US and Russia, which are by far the largest in the world.
From January to February, Japan's direct investment in China dropped 43.63 percent to $716 million compared to the same period last year, the Ministry of Commerce said on March 18.
A Chinese envoy to the UN urged the Japanese government to squarely face up to the historical facts regarding the use of a large number of war-time sex slave and make formal and sincere apologies to the victims.
South Korea's presidential spokesman said Monday that it has no reason to reject summit talks with Japan if the neighboring country shows sincere attitude toward historical issues.
Removing the restraints on collective self-defense imposed by Japan's pacifist Constitution through constitutional interpretation has become a top priority for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his cabinet, as these restraints are the last "defensive line" of the Japanese pacifist Constitution.
An exhibition captures more than 50 years of war between Japan and China.
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