China puts off exchange events with Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga tells a press conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Jan. 9, 2014, that China has postponed private-sector exchange programs with Japan slated for the same month.

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