Japan, China Mark Half-Century of Ties with an Eye on the Future

Former Japanese Prime Minister Hashimoto Ryūtarō gives a speech at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People to mark 30 years of Sino-Japanese ties. (© Izumi Nobumichi)

Xi Jinping, right, and Abe Shinzō shake hands after their brief summit meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on November 10, 2014. (© Jiji)

Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, at left, speaks with the Japanese LDP’s Itō Masayoshi on April 19, 1988, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. (© Izumi Nobumichi)