China, Japan prime ministers hold talks on economic concerns, Nkorea, improving tiesBEIJING — Japan’s prime minister discussed North Korea’s nuclear programs and the need to boost domestic demand to ride out the global financial crisis in talks with his Chinese counterpart Wednesday in Beijing. Japanese PM Taro Aso meets Chinese counterpart on first official visit to ChinaBEIJING — Japan’s prime minister and his Chinese counterpart met Wednesday in Beijing for talks on how to ride out the global financial crisis and boost domestic demand in both countries. China sets dates for visit by Japanese PM, a day after protesting his offering to war shrineBEIJING — Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso will make an official visit to China next week, Beijing announced Friday, a day after protesting an offering given by the Japanese leader to a war shrine seen as a symbol of his country’s militarist past. China protests Japanese leader’s offering to war shrine seen as symbol of militarist pastBEIJING — China protested an offering by Japan’s Prime Minister Taro Aso to a war shrine seen as a symbol of his country’s militarist past, the Foreign Ministry said Thursday. China protests Japan prime minister’s offering to war shrine seen as symbol of militarist pastBEIJING — China’s Foreign Ministry is protesting the Japanese prime minister’s offering of a flowering evergreen tree to a war shrine seen as a symbol of Japan’s militarist past. |