Chinese and Japanese business heavyweights and former high-ranking officials agreed in Tokyo on Friday to help promote political mutual trust and economic reciprocity between the two countries.
Japan's largest travel agency JTB Corp is expanding its online and offline presence in China, to cash in on growing Chinese tourists.
Most of the Japanese companies in China are willing to expand their operations, signaling improved business sentiment after a sharp contraction last year.
Chinese Finance Minister Lou Jiwei talks with Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso over cooperation in economic and international affairs.
China and other members of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank have wrapped up negotiations over the text of the organization's charter.
Intensifying economic cooperation with China is the best way for Japan to recover its stalled economy, said Kiyoyuki Seguchi.
Americans prefer economic ties with China rather than Japan, said a poll conducted by Pew Research Center, a Washington-based think tank.
Authorities are determined to keep the economy from taking the same path of recession and deflation that has blighted its neighbor.
Eleven Japanese companies have been fined for fixing electrical devices' prices, said the nation's antitrust regulator on Thursday.
Most members of the Chinese public support economic cooperation with Japan, but their Japanese counterparts hold competing views, a major poll in both countries showed.
Most members of the Chinese public support economic cooperation with Japan but many of their Japanese counterparts hold competing views, a major poll in both countries showed on Tuesday.
A Japanese consortium assembled from governments and companies on Kyushu arrived in Shanghai on Monday, where it signed agreements with 28 Chinese travel agencies to attract tourists to Japan.