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“We want to reach meaningful agreement about having full and open liberalisation of aviation,” Mary Peters told a gathering of US businesspeople in Beijing.

Kyodo News agency quoted him as adding, however: “I cannot say all problems have been solved. We need more time.”

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s trip to South Korea and Japan is beneficial to the three countries, East Asia and the global community

Ide Keiji, Minister of Public Relations, Press, Culture, Education and Sports and Spokesperson of the Embassy of Japan in China. He sat down with Beijing Review

The Treasury Department said the countries would hold a daylong meeting of the U.S.-China Joint Economic Committee. In a break from past sessions, the talks will not feature the top economic policymakers from either nation.

Japan is now widely recognised as the most energy-efficient economy in the world and nearly 10 times as frugal in its energy use as China, say some Japanese officials.

Japan’s lower house of parliament approves the bill The bill next goes to parliament’s upper house for approval Japan’s lower house of parliament has approved guidelines to amend the country’s post-war pacifist constitution for the first time.