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JAPAN-TOKYO-CHINA-ENTREPRENEURS-FORMER OFFICIALS-DIALOGUE

(231116) -- TOKYO, Nov. 16, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Nov. 15, 2023 shows a scene at the ninth round of Sino-Japanese Entrepreneurs and Former High-level Officials Dialogue in Tokyo, Japan. Business leaders and former high-ranking officials from China and Japan have called for building bilateral relations suiting the new era at the ninth round of Sino-Japanese Entrepreneurs and Former High-level Officials Dialogue held in the Japanese capital. TO GO WITH "Chinese, Japanese entrepreneurs, former officials call for building bilateral ties for new era" (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu)

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JAPAN-TOKYO-CHINA-ENTREPRENEURS-FORMER OFFICIALS-DIALOGUE

(231116) -- TOKYO, Nov. 16, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Bi Jingquan, executive vice chairman of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges (CCIEE), speaks at the ninth round of Sino-Japanese Entrepreneurs and Former High-level Officials Dialogue in Tokyo, Japan, Nov. 15, 2023. Business leaders and former high-ranking officials from China and Japan have called for building bilateral relations suiting the new era at the ninth round of Sino-Japanese Entrepreneurs and Former High-level Officials Dialogue held in the Japanese capital. TO GO WITH "Chinese, Japanese entrepreneurs, former officials call for building bilateral ties for new era" (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu)

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Sino-Japanese ties very important: China's Li

BEIJING, China - Taizo Nishimuro (L), president of Japan Post Holdings Co. who heads the New Japan-China Friendship Committee for the 21st Century on the Japanese side, talks with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (R) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Dec. 4, 2014. The committee, an advisory body to the two governments, held a formal meeting for the first time since October 2011. (Pool photo by Yomiuri Shimbun)

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Sino-Japanese ties very important: China's Li

BEIJING, China - Taizo Nishimuro, president of Japan Post Holdings Co. who heads the New Japan-China Friendship Committee for the 21st Century on the Japanese side, speaks to reporters at the Japanese Embassy in Beijing on Dec. 4, 2014, after talks with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang.

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China's ambassador hints at Sino-Japanese summit talks

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua says in a speech in Tokyo on Oct. 15, 2014, that Beijing and Tokyo are arranging through diplomatic channels to realize the first formal talks between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during November's APEC forum meeting in the Chinese capital.

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Chinese seek damages for wartime forced labor in Japan

SHIJIAZHUANG, China - A group of Chinese people go to the High People's Court of Hebei Province in Shijiazhuang on April 2, 2014, to file a lawsuit against Mitsubishi Materials Corp. seeking compensation for forced labor in Japan during the 1937-1945 Sino-Japanese war.

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Chinese prepare to seek damages for forced labor in Japan

SHIJIAZHUANG, China - A group of Chinese people observe a moment of silence at a park in Shijiazhuang on April 2, 2014, before going to the High People's Court of Hebei Province in the city to file a lawsuit against Mitsubishi Materials Corp., seeking compensation for forced labor in Japan during the 1937-1945 Sino-Japanese war. On the far right is a South Korean bereaved relative holding a photo of a deceased former forced laborer from his country.

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S. Koreans, Chinese hold rally over wartime forced labor

SHIJIAZHUANG, China - A South Korean woman makes a speech during a rally on April 1, 2014, in Shijiazhuang, the capital of Hebei Province in northern China, in support of Chinese people set to file a lawsuit the next day against a Japanese company over forced labor during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The former Chinese forced laborers and deceased laborers' family members invited South Koreans, who have filed similar lawsuits in South Korea, to deepen cooperation and share experiences.

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S. Koreans, Chinese hold rally over wartime forced labor

SHIJIAZHUANG, China - Survivors (front, sitting) of Japanese forced labor during the Second Sino-Japanese War listen to a speech during a rally in Shijiazhuang, the capital of Hebei Province in northern China, on April 1, 2014, the day before filing a lawsuit against a Japanese company over wartime forced labor.

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Cherry blossoms draw crowds to Beijing's Yuyuantan Park

BEIJING, China - Huang Qian (L), a Beijing University student majoring in Japanese, and her dormitory friends pose for photos in front of cherry blossoms at Yuyuantan Park (Jade Lake Park) in Beijing on March 23, 2014. The first 180 cherry trees were planted in the park as a gift from Japan upon the normalization of Sino-Japanese diplomatic ties in 1972, and the tree population has grown to some 2,000 trees including native Chinese species.

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Japanese tea ceremony master at ceremony in Shanghai

SHANGHAI, China - Daisosho Sen Genshitsu of Urasenke, one of the three main schools of Japanese tea ceremony, conducts a tea ceremony at a hotel in Shanghai on March 15, 2014, as part of a cultural exchange event to deepen understanding of the Japanese tea tradition among Chinese youth and promote Sino-Japanese ties.

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Chinese scholar returns to Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Zhu Jianrong, a professor of Chinese politics and diplomacy at Toyo Gakuen University's Nagareyama Campus in Chiba Prefecture. Zhu, a Japan-based Chinese scholar and well-known commentator on Sino-Japanese relations, was detained by Chinese authorities in July 2013, suspected of illegal intelligence-gathering activities. He returned to Japan on Feb. 28, 2014.

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Japan gov't planning to buy disputed isles

BEIJING, China - People demonstrate against Japan at the Marco Polo Bridge outside Beijing on July 7, 2012, to mark the 75th anniversary of an incident at the bridge that sparked the Sino-Japanese war. In Japan the same day, government sources said the Japanese government is planning to buy some of the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, also claimed by China and Taiwan, from a private owner in a bid to increase its control over the islands.

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Nagoya Mayor Kawamura

NAGOYA, Japan - Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura holds a press conference at the Nagoya city government office on Feb. 20, 2012. Earlier in the day, Kawamura told a visiting official from Nanjing, China, that he doubts a massacre of civilians by Imperial Japanese Army soldiers occurred in Nanjing in 1937 during the Sino-Japanese war, immediately drawing fire from China.

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Nanjing official in Nagoya

NAGOYA, Japan - Liu Zhiwei (L), a member of the Chinese Communist Party's Nanjing City Standing Committee, and Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura exchange gifts after their meeting in Nagoya, central Japan, on Feb. 20, 2012. Kawamura told Liu he doubts that a 1937 massacre of civilians by Imperial Japanese Army soldiers occurred in the Chinese city during the Sino-Japanese war.

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Memorial ceremony in Nanjing

NANJING, China - People attend a ceremony in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, on Dec. 13, 2011, to commemorate victims who were killed by the now-defunct Imperial Japanese Army during the Sino-Japanese war, on the 74th anniversary of the Japanese occupation of the Chinese city.

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Memorial ceremony in Nanjing

NANJING, China - A memorial ceremony is held in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, on Dec. 13, 2011, to commemorate victims who were killed by the now-defunct Imperial Japanese Army during the Sino-Japanese war, on the 74th anniversary of the Japanese occupation of the Chinese city.

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Memorial ceremony in Nanjing

NANJING, China - People observe a moment of silence during a ceremony in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, on Dec. 13, 2011, to commemorate victims who were killed by the now-defunct Imperial Japanese Army during the Sino-Japanese war, on the 74th anniversary of the Japanese occupation of the Chinese city.

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Memorial ceremony in Nanjing

NANJING, China - A memorial ceremony is held in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, on Dec. 13, 2011, to commemorate victims who were killed by the now-defunct Imperial Japanese Army during the Sino-Japanese war, on the 74th anniversary of the Japanese occupation of the Chinese city.

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Scholar chronicles life of Japanese in old Shanghai

SHANGHAI, China - Chinese scholar Chen Zuen, in this photo taken Sept. 30, 2009 at his home in Shanghai, is writing a book about Japanese who lived in Shanghai before and during the Sino-Japanese War and World War II.

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China quietly marks Sino-Japanese war turning point

BEIJING, China - About 1,000 people, including soldiers and students, gather in front of the Anti-Japanese War Memorial Museum near the Marco Polo Bridge outside Beijing July 7 to attend the opening ceremony of a new exhibit on the Sino-Japanese war as China marked the 70th anniversary of an incident at the bridge that sparked the war.

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Nakasone on visit to China

SHANGHAI, China - Former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone speaks to a gathering in Shanghai of 200 members of a Japanese friendship delegation shortly after they arrived there on June 14. The delegation is visiting China at the invitation of the Chinese government as part of events to mark the 35th anniversary of the normalization of Sino-Japanese diplomatic ties. Nakasone is scheduled with meet with Chinese President Hu Jintao in Beijing on June 19.

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Hashimoto meets Chinese friendship group

BEIJING, China - Former Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto (front at L side), leading a group of prominent Japanese involved in Sino-Japanese relations, holds talks with Song Jian, head of the Chinese organization promoting China-Japan relations, and other Chinese at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 31.

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Hashimoto meets Chinese friendship group

BEIJING, China - Former Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto (L), who is leading a group of prominent Japanese involved in Sino-Japanese relations, poses for photos with Song Jian, head of the Chinese organization promoting China-Japan relations, ahead of their talks at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 31.

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China remembers turning point of Sino-Japanese war

BEIJING, China - People look at photos at the renovated Anti-Japanese War Memorial Museum next to the Marco Polo Bridge outside Beijing on July 7, the 68th anniversary of the battle China says officially sparked its war resisting Japanese occupation in 1937.

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China remembers turning point of Sino-Japanese war

BEIJING, China - Police block a man wearing a shirt emblazoned with anti-Japanese slogans near a ceremony site at the Anti-Japanese War Memorial Museum next to the Marco Polo Bridge outside Beijing on July 7, the 68th anniversary of the battle China says officially sparked its war resisting Japanese occupation in 1937.

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China remembers turning point of Sino-Japanese war

BEIJING, China - A ceremony marks the opening of the renovated Anti-Japanese War Memorial Museum next to the Marco Polo Bridge outside Beijing on July 7, the 68th anniversary of the battle China says officially sparked its war resisting Japanese occupation in 1937.

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73rd anniversary of Japanese invasion marked

BEIJING, China - Scholars from Japan, China and the United States sit on the rostrum for a half-day symposium on Sino-Japanese relations held at the Anti-Japanese War Memorial in south Beijing on Sept. 18, the 73rd anniversary of the start of Japan's occupation of northeast China.

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Wang to become Chinese ambassador to Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wang Yi (in file photo) will appointed Chinese ambassador to Japan as early as September, Sino-Japanese relations sources said on July 1. Wang, 50, chaired the six-way talks on North Korea's nuclear ambitions in Beijing in June.

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Japanese group to donate cherry trees to China

TOKYO, Japan - Dan Zhaoxiang (R), president of the Beijing Afforestation Foundation, presents Katsuya Fukuoka, managing director of the Japan Cherry Blossom Association, with a gift at a Tokyo hotel April 1 in return for 2,500 flowering cherry tree seedlings to be donated to China by the Japanese group in commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the normalization of Sino-Japanese ties.

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Kiriyenko offers help to dispose of chemical shells

TOKYO, Japan - The head of Russia's chemical arms disarmament commission, Sergey Kiriyenko, speaks Sept. 2 in an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo. Kiriyenko, a former prime minister, said Russia is ready to provide technology to help Japan dispose of chemical shells it abandoned in China at the end the 1937-1945 Sino-Japanese War.

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China to name Wu Dawei as Japan envoy

BEIJING, China - The Chinese government plans to name Wu Dawei (file photo), China's current ambassador to South Korea and a veteran of Sino-Japanese relations, as ambassador to Japan, diplomatic sources say. Wu will succeed Chen Jian, who is to take up a senior position at the United Nations Secretariat, the sources said. The appointments are expected sometime in April or May.

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Names of 52 Chinese victims of germ warfare released

HARBIN, China - China's Heilongjiang provincial government releases Aug. 2 Japanese army documents bearing the names of 52 Chinese victims of germ warfare experiments conducted by the Imperial Japanese Army near Harbin, northeastern China, during the 1937-1945 Sino-Japanese War. It is the first time for the Chinese to release documents left behind by Unit 731, whose human experiments allegedly killed some 3,000 Chinese.

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Broadcaster of Chinese wartime propaganda found

SHENYANG, China - Kiyoko Hara, a Japanese female announcer who called on the Imperial Japanese Army to surrender in Chinese Communist Party radio broadcasts during the 1937-1945 Sino-Japanese War, has been found to be still living in Shenyang 54 years after the war. In a recent interview with Kyodo News, Hara, 86, revealed for the first time that she cooperated with the Chinese communists in broadcasting their propaganda to the Japanese army during the war.

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Jiang, Kan agree to work for 'common understanding'

Naoto Kan (L), leader of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan, and Chinese President Jiang Zemin hold talks at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on April 5. They agreed on the importance of developing a common understanding on historical issues related to the 1937-1945 Sino-Japanese War. Kan was on an eight-day trip to China starting April 29 to meet top Chinese officials.

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Ex-Japanese premier tours Nanjin

Japan's former Socialist Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama (L) watches displays of Japanese atrocities at the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Museum in Nanjing on May 24. Murayama said Japan must face up to the ''intolerable pains'' inflicted on the Chinese people by the Imperial Japanese Army during the 1937-1945 Sino-Japanese War.

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Ex-China Communist Party leader Hu Yaobang's son

Hu Dehua, the third son of former Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Hu Yaobang -- who contributed to the improvement of the Sino-Japanese relations in the 1980s -- speaks during an interview in Beijing on Sept. 28, 2022, a day before the 50th anniversary of the normalization of the countries' diplomatic ties.

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Ex-China Communist Party leader Hu Yaobang's son

Hu Dehua, the third son of former Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Hu Yaobang -- who contributed to the improvement of the Sino-Japanese relations in the 1980s -- speaks during an interview in Beijing on Sept. 28, 2022, a day before the 50th anniversary of the normalization of the countries' diplomatic ties.

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Japanese group to donate cherry trees to China

TOKYO, Japan - Dan Zhaoxiang (R), president of the Beijing Afforestation Foundation, presents Katsuya Fukuoka, managing director of the Japan Cherry Blossom Association, with a gift at a Tokyo hotel April 1 in return for 2,500 flowering cherry tree seedlings to be donated to China by the Japanese group in commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the normalization of Sino-Japanese ties.

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Hashimoto meets Chinese friendship group

BEIJING, China - Former Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto (front at L side), leading a group of prominent Japanese involved in Sino-Japanese relations, holds talks with Song Jian, head of the Chinese organization promoting China-Japan relations, and other Chinese at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 31. (Kyodo)

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Hashimoto meets Chinese friendship group

BEIJING, China - Former Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto (L), who is leading a group of prominent Japanese involved in Sino-Japanese relations, poses for photos with Song Jian, head of the Chinese organization promoting China-Japan relations, ahead of their talks at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 31. (Kyodo)

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Japan, China see better ties, further coop on N. Korea talks res

HANOI, Vietnam - Chinese President Hu Jintao (2nd from L) and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (far right) are in talks in Hanoi on Nov. 18. Hu told Abe that development of better Sino-Japanese relations has been achieved. (Pool photo) (Kyodo)

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Japan, China see better ties, further coop on N. Korea talks res

HANOI, Vietnam - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe listens to Chinese President Hu Jintao during their talks in Hanoi on Nov. 18. Hu told Abe that development of better Sino-Japanese relations has been achieved. The two leaders also agreed to coordinate policies on an early resumption of six-nation talks to persuade North Korea to abandon its nuclear ambitions. (Pool photo) (Kyodo)

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Japan, China see better ties, further coop on N. Korea talks res

HANOI, Vietnam - Chinese President Hu Jintao (2nd from L) and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe are in talks in Hanoi on Nov. 18. Hu told Abe that development of better Sino-Japanese relations has been achieved. (Pool photo) (Kyodo)

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Fukuda visits primary school in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda (R), accompanied by his wife Kiyoko, visits a primary school in Beijing on Dec. 29 and signs his name on a scroll written by students there that says ''Sino-Japanese friendship.'' The school, where students learn Japanese as a foreign language, has been designated to support Japanese visitors during next year's Beijing Summer Olympic Games under the Chinese government's ''one school, one country'' campaign. (Kyodo)

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Ex-Japanese premier tours Nanjin

Japan's former Socialist Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama (L) watches displays of Japanese atrocities at the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Museum in Nanjing on May 24. Murayama said Japan must face up to the ''intolerable pains'' inflicted on the Chinese people by the Imperial Japanese Army during the 1937-1945 Sino-Japanese War.

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Kiriyenko offers help to dispose of chemical shells

TOKYO, Japan - The head of Russia's chemical arms disarmament commission, Sergey Kiriyenko, speaks Sept. 2 in an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo. Kiriyenko, a former prime minister, said Russia is ready to provide technology to help Japan dispose of chemical shells it abandoned in China at the end the 1937-1945 Sino-Japanese War.

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1937 Leipziger Nachrichten (Germany) Bombing of Nanking

1937 Leipziger Nachrichten front page (Germany) Bombing of Nanking Date: 1937

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Communist China - Japanese weapons captured

Communist China - Japanese weapons and prisoners captured during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945). circa 1940s

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Communist China - soldiers in wartime

Communist China - soldiers in wartime, taking time out for political study and discussion, while others look out for enemy action, probably during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945). circa 1940s