Japan, China to craft new political document for Xi's state visit

Japan and China have decided to craft a new major political document that will lay the foundation for their future relations, to be unveiled when Chinese President Xi Jinping visits as a state guest in the spring, sources close to the matter said Thursday.Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Xi agreed to create the document, the fifth of its kind since the countries normalized diplomatic relations in 1972, in a meeting in December last year in Beijing, the sources said.While relations between Japan and China have often been frayed by differing views of wartime history and territorial disputes, tie…READ FULL ARTICLE