Xi Jinping welcomes Japanese PM's planned visit to China

Abe readies for trip next month in first bilateral visit in 7 years

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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Vladivostok, Russia, on Sept. 12

JUNNOSUKE KOBARA, Nikkei staff writer

VLADIVOSTOK -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to accelerate arrangements for the Japanese leader's planned visit to China next month, in another sign of a thaw in the fractious relationship between Tokyo and Beijing.

The leaders held talks Wednesday on the sidelines of an international forum in the Russian Far East port city -- their first summit since meeting 10 months ago at an APEC summit in Danang, Vietnam.

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