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Japan-China-S. Korea talks

The Japanese, Chinese and South Korean foreign ministers hold a three-way meeting in Tokyo on March 22, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Japan-China-S. Korea talks

The Japanese, Chinese and South Korean foreign ministers hold a three-way meeting in Tokyo on March 22, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Japan-China-S. Korea talks

The Japanese, Chinese and South Korean foreign ministers hold a three-way meeting in Tokyo on March 22, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Chinese cultural elements shine at Cherry Blossom Festival in Germany

STORY: Chinese cultural elements shine at Cherry Blossom Festival in Germany SHOOTING TIME: April 14, 2024 DATELINE: April 15, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:56 LOCATION: Berlin CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of cherry blossoms at Gardens of the World 2. various of Chinese cultural performances at Gardens of the World 3. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): LIN HE, Conductor of Berlin Chinese Xueyou Choir STORYLINE: The Gardens of the World in Berlin, capital of Germany hosted its annual Cherry Blossom Festival over the weekend. Visitors enjoyed a wide-ranging entertainment and stage program in the Japanese, Chinese and Korean gardens. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): LIN HE, Conductor of Berlin Chinese Xueyou Choir "The Berlin Chinese Xueyou Choir has been established for 29 years. We are invited to participate in cultural exchange activities in the park every year (during the Cherry Blossom Festival). We just performed three Chinese songs, which were welcomed by the audience. In the future, we hope to continue to contribute to the pr

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Japanese, Chinese attend joint coming-of-age ceremony

BEIJING, China - Young Japanese and Chinese nationals hold up their first calligraphies of the year in a joint coming-of-age ceremony at the Japanese Embassy in Beijing on Jan. 10, 2015. Some 250 young people, including about 130 Chinese, attended the event.

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Japanese, Chinese media compare notes in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Editors from Japanese media distributing news in Chinese and Chinese media distributing news in Japanese attend a forum, hosted by Kyodo News and China International Publishing Group, in Tokyo on Nov. 28, 2014, to discuss ways to promote mutual understanding.

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Japanese, Chinese media forum held in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Editors from Japanese media distributing news in Chinese and Chinese media distributing news in Japanese attend a forum on the theme of exchange and dialogue in Tokyo on Nov. 28, 2014. The media forum was hosted by Kyodo News and China International Publishing Group.

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Grade school boy poses before award-winning drawing

FUKUOKA, Japan - Shinnosuke Takagi, a fifth grader at an elementary school in Chikushino, Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, pose in front of his drawing (upper R) at the Fukuoka city office building on Oct. 5, 2014. He won a prize at an exhibition of drawings by Japanese, Chinese and South Korean preschool and elementary school pupils to promote understanding among the three countries.

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Japanese, Chinese media discuss bilateral issues

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese and Chinese participants exchange views at a media dialogue held as part of a Tokyo-Beijing Forum gathering at a Tokyo hotel on Sept. 28, 2014.

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Interpreter aims to bridge Japan, China

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken March 18, 2014 in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward shows Yuki Izumikawa, who works as Japanese-Chinese interpreter at the Association for the Promotion of International Trade, an organization promoting trade and economic exchanges between Japan and China.

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Japanese, Chinese culture ministers meet in Vietnam

HUE, Vietnam - Japanese Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Hakubun Shimomura shakes hands with his Chinese counterpart Cai Wu (L) at a meeting of culture ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations as well as Japan, China and South Korea in the central Vietnamese city of Hue on April 19, 2014.

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Japanese, Chinese women in N.Y. begin online fashion business

NEW YORK, United States - Staff members of ''Material Wrld,'' online fashion business launched by Japanese and Chinese women Rie Yano and Jie Zheng, select clothing for photos to be posted on the website at a photo studio in New York on Dec. 11, 2012. (Photo by Meg Maruyama)

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Japanese, Chinese women in N.Y. begin online fashion business

NEW YORK, United States - Rie Yano (R) and Jie Zheng, business partners who jointly launched the ''Material Wrld'' fashion website, pose on a Manhattan street in New York on Jan. 29, 2013. (Photo by Meg Maruyama)

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Japanese, Chinese farm ministers

JEJU ISLAND, South Korea - Japanese farm minister Michihiko Kano (L) meets with his Chinese counterpart Han Changfu on Jeju Island, South Korea, on April 14, 2012.

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Japanese, Chinese foreign ministers

BEIJING, China - Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba (far L) and Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi (far R) hold talks in Beijing on Nov. 23, 2011. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Japanese, Chinese foreign ministers

BEIJING, China - Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba (L) and Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi shake hands ahead of their talks in Beijing on Nov. 23, 2011. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Japanese, Chinese defense chiefs meet to deepen exchanges

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa (R) holds talks with his Chinese counterpart Liang Guanglie (L) at the Japanese Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Nov. 27, 2009. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Japanese, Chinese defense chiefs meet to deepen exchanges

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa (R) shakes hands with his Chinese counterpart Liang Guanglie before their talks at the Japanese Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Nov. 27, 2009. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Japanese, Chinese foreign ministers hold talks

SHANGHAI, China - Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi (L) holds talks with Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada at a hotel in Shanghai on Sept. 28, 2009. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Japanese, Chinese foreign ministers hold talks

SHANGHAI, China - Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada (R) holds talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi (2nd from L) at a hotel in Shanghai on Sept. 28, 2009. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Japanese, Chinese foreign ministers hold talks

SHANGHAI, China - Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada (R) holds talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi at a hotel in Shanghai on Sept. 28, 2009. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Japanese, Chinese foreign ministers hold talks

SHANGHAI, China - Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada (L) shakes hands with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi at a hotel in Shanghai on Sept. 28, 2009, before their talks. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Japanese, Chinese defense chiefs hold talks in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Japanese Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada (2nd from L) attends talks with his Chinese counterpart Liang Guanglie at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 20. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Japanese, Chinese defense chiefs hold talks in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Japanese Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada (2nd from L) and his Chinese counterpart Liang Guanglie (2nd from R) hold talks at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 20. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Japanese, Chinese defense chiefs hold talks in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Chinese National Defense Minister Liang Guanglie (2nd from R) attends talks with his Japanese counterpart Yasukazu Hamada at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 20. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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9.6 mil. yen tuna shared by Japanese, Chinese sushi restaurant owners

TOKYO, Japan - Yosuke Imada (C), 63-year-old Japanese manager of the prestigious sushi restaurant ''Kyubey'' in Tokyo's posh Ginza district, and Cheng Weitao (L), 41-year-old Chinese manager of a sushi chain in Hong Kong and elsewhere, shake hands at Tokyo's Tsukiji market on Jan. 5 after jointly bidding on a bluefin tuna that sold for 9.63 million yen at the New Year auction at the market, the highest price in eight years. They each took half of the fish, which was caught in the sea off Oma, Aomori Prefecture and cut in two at the market immediately after the bidding.

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Japanese adventurer takes children's paintings to China by canoe

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Seen off by well-wishers, Japanese adventurer Chikara Nakamura heads out to sea on a solo trip to China by canoe from Minami-Satsuma, Kagoshima Prefecture on May 25. Nakamura, 56, is carrying a collection of children's paintings for display at a Japanese-Chinese exhibition at the museum in Beijing's Forbidden City, an event organized to mark the Beijing Summer Olympics. Nakamura says he plans to row to China's Qingdao city via South Korea's Jeju island, a 1,400-km trip that is expected to take a month, and then travel on to Beijing by train.

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Japanese, Chinese foreign ministers meet to prepare for Hu's visit

TOKYO, Japan - Visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi (L) and Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura shake hands at the beginning of their talks in Tokyo on April 17. (Pool photo)

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Japanese, Chinese academics begin history talks

TOKYO, Japan - Researchers and scholars from Japan and China begin a two-day meeting March 19 in Tokyo to bridge the two countries' differences in interpreting history.

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Japan, China historians to open 1st round of talks on history

BEIJING, China - Historians from Japan and China will open the first round of talks in Beijing on Dec. 26 in a bid to find common ground on Japanese-Chinese history, a deep thorn in bilateral ties. Photo shows Chinese police officers viewing newspaper accounts of Japanese war-time atrocities at the National Museum in Beijing. The Japanese and Chinese governments have agreed to release the historians' findings by 2008.

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Japanese, Chinese bourse officials hold 1st meeting in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Stock Exchange Inc. President Taizo Nishimuro and Li Jiange, deputy director of the Development Research Center of China's State Council, pose for photos at a meeting of top officials of Japanese and Chinese bourses held in Tokyo on May 18.

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Japanese, Chinese bourse officials hold 1st meeting in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Stock Exchange Inc. President Taizo Nishimuro speaks at the first meeting of top officials of Japanese and Chinese bourses held at a Tokyo hotel on May 18. The participants agreed to enhance cooperation amid an acceleration of mergers among exchange operators in the United States and Europe.

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Japanese, Chinese table tennis veterans reunite in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Japanese and Chinese table tennis veterans from the 1956 world championships plant trees in Beijing on April 1 to mark the 50th anniversary of the competition held in Tokyo. They reunited in the tree-planting ceremony to kick off a three-day event that will feature ping-pong matches and a meeting with Chinese State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan.

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Japanese, Chinese table tennis veterans reunite in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Qiu Zhonghui (2nd from left) and Kimiyo Kurimoto (formerly Matsuzaki) hug each other after their reunion in Beijing on April 1. Japanese and Chinese table tennis veterans met and planted trees in Beijing to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1956 world table tennis championships held in Tokyo.

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Japanese, Chinese table tennis veterans reunite in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Japanese and Chinese table tennis veterans from the 1956 world championships pose for photos after their reunion in Beijing on April to mark the 50th anniversary of the competition held in Tokyo.

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Japanese, Chinese officials remain apart over shrine visits

BEIJING, China - Wang Jiarui (standing), head of the International Department of the Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee, addresses a meeting in Beijing on Feb. 21 between Japanese ruling coalition lawmakers and Chinese Communist Party officials.

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Japanese, Chinese officials remain apart over shrine visits

BEIJING, China - Hidenao Nakagawa (standing), chairman of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party's Police Research Council, addresses a meeting between Japanese ruling coalition lawmakers and Chinese Communist Party officials in Beijing on Feb. 21.

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Japanese, Chinese officials remain apart over shrine visits

BEIJING, China - Wang Jiarui (L), head of the International Department of the Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee, and Hidenao Nakagawa, chairman of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party's Police Research Council, shake hands at a hotel in Beijing on Feb. 21 before a meeting between Japanese ruling coalition lawmakers and Chinese Communist Party officials.

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Japanese, Chinese food service industrialists hold forum in Beijing

BEIJING, China - A Japanese food service shop operator explains one of the shop's menu items at a forum held in Beijing on April 20 for Japanese and Chinese working in the food service industry.

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Bullets found at Chinese language school

TOKYO, Japan - What appeared to be bullet holes are found in the glass door of the Japanese-Chinese language school in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward on April 18. Two 5-mm bullets were also found outside the building.

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(2)Japanese, Chinese parliamentarians discuss ways to improve ties

TOKYO, Japanese - Japanese and Chinese parliamentarians pose for photos after their meeting in Tokyo on April 14.

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(4)Japanese, Chinese parliamentarians discuss ways to improve ties

TOKYO, Japan - Lu Yongxiang, vice chairman of the standing committee of China's National People's Congress, speaks at a meeting of Japanese and Chinese parliamentarians in Tokyo on April 14. Lu expressed hope that the talks will help create an atmosphere conducive to resolving the outstanding issues between the two countries.

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(3)Japanese, Chinese parliamentarians discuss ways to improve ties

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese House of Representatives Speaker Yohei Kono addressed a meeting of Japanese and Chinese parliamentarians in Tokyo on April 14.

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(1)Japanese, Chinese parliamentarians discuss ways to improve ties

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese and Chinese parliamentarians hold a meeting in Tokyo on April 14, chaired by Japanese House of Representatives Speaker Yohei Kono (C). They discussed ways to improve soured bilateral relations and deepen friendship and mutual understanding.

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Japanese, Chinese researchers discover world's oldest bricks

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows baked bricks, believed to be the world's oldest dating back some 6,400 years. A joint team of Japanese and Chinese researchers, including members of the Kyoto-based International Research Center for Japanese Studies, discovered the bricks at the Jotozan ruins in the Yangtze River area in China's Hunan Province, team members said Nov. 2.

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Japanese, Chinese, S. Korean environment leaders meet

Top environment officials from Japan, China and South Korea shake hands Jan. 13 in Seoul prior to a meeting on environmental issues affecting Northeast Asia and the rest of the world. They are Xie Zhenhua (L), director of the Chinese National Environmental Protection Agency, Japanese Environment Agency Director General Kenji Manabe (C), and South Korean Environment Minister Choi Jae Wook.

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Japanese, Chinese researchers discover world's oldest bricks

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows baked bricks, believed to be the world's oldest dating back some 6,400 years. A joint team of Japanese and Chinese researchers, including members of the Kyoto-based International Research Center for Japanese Studies, discovered the bricks at the Jotozan ruins in the Yangtze River area in China's Hunan Province, team members said Nov. 2.

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Bullets found at Chinese language school

TOKYO, Japan - What appeared to be bullet holes are found in the glass door of the Japanese-Chinese language school in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward on April 18. Two 5-mm bullets were also found outside the building. (Kyodo)

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Japanese, Chinese officials remain apart over shrine visits

BEIJING, China - Hidenao Nakagawa (standing), chairman of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party's Police Research Council, addresses a meeting between Japanese ruling coalition lawmakers and Chinese Communist Party officials in Beijing on Feb. 21. (Kyodo)

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Japanese, Chinese officials remain apart over shrine visits

BEIJING, China - Wang Jiarui (L), head of the International Department of the Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee, and Hidenao Nakagawa, chairman of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party's Police Research Council, shake hands at a hotel in Beijing on Feb. 21 before a meeting between Japanese ruling coalition lawmakers and Chinese Communist Party officials. (Kyodo)