Steps urged to help avoid new conflict

Cooperation and exchanges, management of differences among ideas promoted at forum

China and Japan need to control the negative issues that may spiral into crisis, said Chinese and Japanese scholars, journalists and politicians in Tokyo on Tuesday.

In a speech at the opening ceremony of the 12th Beijing-Tokyo Forum, Tang Jiaxuan, president of the China-Japan Friendship Association, recommended that the two countries manage their differences well and prevent new problems from arising in the relations.