Japan, China agree to work for success of Xi's visit as state guest

Japanese and Chinese foreign ministers agreed Thursday to make coordinated efforts for the success of Chinese President Xi Jinping's planned visit to Japan as a state guest next spring, with ties between the neighbors improving.At their talks in Bangkok, Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono also urged China to lift restrictions on imports of Japanese food that were put in place after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, a Japanese official told reporters.Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, at the outset of the meeting, said, "We hope that bilateral relations will develop in a correct, heathy a…READ FULL ARTICLE