From Aljazeera News:
China and Japan have agreed to step up efforts to improve relations after a long rift over territorial disputes and lingering animosity based on their wartime past.
The move follows a trilateral summit meeting between the Chinese, Japanese and South Korean leaders on the sidelines of a wider Asian summit in the Philippines…
According to Chinese officials, Wen told Shinzo Abe, the Japanese prime minister, that he should be careful in his handling of Japan’s wartime past and its occupation of much of East Asia before and during World War II.
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(Photo of Wen and Abe)
