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30-05-2025
- Entertainment
Japanese, Chinese Students Interact at Beijing Event
Beijing, May 30 (Jiji Press)--About 500 Japanese and Chinese university students have deepened friendships at an exchange event held at a university in Beijing, singing, dancing and offering traditional art performances. From Japan, some 300 students dispatched by the Japan-China Friendship Association, the Japan-China Cultural Exchange Association and the Japan-China Friendship Center took part in the event held Thursday. Japanese Ambassador to China Kenji Kanasugi was also among the attendees. In an address, Yang Wanming, president of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, the event's host, said he hopes the participants will act as a bridge to help people from the two countries deeply understand each other. "This is my first visit to China, and I was surprised to see how developed this country is," Chikara Oe, 21, a third-year student of Japan's Tohoku University, said. "By communicating in person with Chinese students of the same generation, I realized that there isn't much difference in how we think," Oe added. [Copyright The Jiji Press, Ltd.]
Yomiuri Shimbun
29-04-2025
- Business
- Yomiuri Shimbun
Japan Friendship Delegation Set to Meet 3rd Ranking Official of China's Communist Party; Representatives Seek Progression on Outstanding Issues
Pool photo / The Yomiuri Shimbun Hiroshi Moriyama, secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party, who serves as chairman of the Japan-China Parliamentary Friendship Association, left, meets with Yang Wanming, president of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, in Beijing on Monday. BEIJING — A delegation from the Japan-China Parliamentary Friendship Association, a nonpartisan group of Japanese lawmakers, is expected to meet with Zhao Leji, the chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and the third-ranking official of the Chinese Communist Party, in Beijing on Tuesday. The delegation hopes to advance Japan-China relations and help resolve pending issues such as the resumption of imports of Japanese marine products. Fourteen lawmakers are participating in the visit to China, which began on Sunday. Members include Hiroshi Moriyama, secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party, who serves as chairman of the association; Banri Kaieda, a Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker, who was a former vice speaker of the House of Representatives; Motohisa Furukawa, acting representative of the Democratic Party for the People; and Kazuo Shii, chairperson of the Central Committee of the Japanese Communist Party. On Monday, the delegation met with Yang Wanming, president of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, an international exchange organization. At the meeting, Moriyama stressed that 'personal exchange and mutual understanding are indispensable for putting Japan-China relations on a positive track.' In response, Yang said that 'the visit to China will be of great significance in improving mutual political trust.' Moriyama also asked Yang for cooperation in lending new pandas to Tokyo's Ueno Zoo and the Adventure World theme park in Shirahama, Wakayama Prefecture, as the deadline to return the current pandas approaches. Natsuo Yamaguchi, former chief representative of Komeito, and others also arrived China on Monday, following the visit of Komeito Chief Representative Tetsuo Saito, who stayed from April 22 to 24. Yamaguchi and others will engage in educational and cultural exchanges between Japan and China until Wednesday.
The Mainichi
29-04-2025
- Politics
- The Mainichi
Cross-party lawmakers ask China to lease giant pandas to Japan
BEIJING (Kyodo) -- A cross-party group of China-friendly Japanese lawmakers on Monday asked Beijing to lease some more giant pandas to the neighboring country, the head of the delegation told reporters, as four pandas currently at a western Japan zoo will return to China around late June. The request was made during the group's meeting in Beijing with Yang Wanming, president of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries. The lawmakers are on a three-day visit to China through Tuesday. The departure of the four pandas from the zoo in Wakayama Prefecture will leave just two giant pandas in Japan, at Tokyo's Ueno Zoological Gardens. Hiroshi Moriyama, secretary general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party who heads the delegation, told Yang, "Personnel exchanges and mutual understanding are indispensable to put bilateral relations on a path for improvement" when public sentiments toward each other remain unfavorable. He proposed that young Japanese parliamentarians who belong to the group visit China later this year. A meeting between the delegation members and China's top legislator Zhao Leji, the No. 3 in the ruling Chinese Communist Party's leadership, is being arranged for Tuesday. Kazuo Shii, chairman of the Japanese Communist Party Central Committee, is visiting China for the first time in 27 years as a member of the lawmakers' group. In 2016, Shii criticized the Chinese ruling party's negative stance toward nuclear disarmament at an international conference, dampening relations between the Communist parties of the two Asian neighbors.
