Japan's approval of new elementary school textbooks which claim the disputed Diaoyu Islands as part of its territory draws strong condemnation from China.
China on Friday expressed deep concern and strong dissatisfaction over Japan's outrageous claim of the "China Threat" laid through its "Diplomatic Bluebook for 2014".
Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei on Friday again urged Japan to make serious efforts for the improvement of bilateral relations.
Japan sparked domestic and global concerns on Tuesday by overturning a ban on military hardware exports in a move to help "restore its military power".
The Sino-Japanese relationship faces thorny challenges, but Tokyo is not keen on having a serious strategic dialogue with Beijing.
Beijing voiced serious discontent and protested the "unreasonable attitude" of Japan toward President Xi Jinping's Berlin speech about Japan's wartime atrocities, the Foreign Ministry said on Monday.
A spokesman for China's Foreign Ministry on Friday slammed an analogy drawn by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe between their territorial disputes and the situation in Crimea.
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.
An exhibition captures more than 50 years of war between Japan and China.
A photography exhibition on Japan's invasion history of China opened in Beijing on Wednesday.
Japan has no plan to revise a landmark 1993 apology over wartime sex slavery, the government's top spokesman said on Monday.
Japan not to revise Kono statement on 'comfort women'
China vows no compromise with Japan on history
Japan will not revise its official apology over wartime sex slavery, or "comfort women", made by then Chief Cabinet Secretary Yohei Kono in 1993.
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