A Chinese artist shows woodblock New Year paintings at a promotional event for Shandong province of China in Tokyo on April 18. [Photo by Jiang Xueqing/China Daily]

Second, further promote cultural synergy and innovation by exploring the establishment of a new cultural business development alliance and enhancing cooperation in fields like film, animation, gaming, and digital culture.

Third, further deepen exchanges and mutual learning of civilizations, with Confucian culture as the bond, supporting academic institutions and higher education institutions to conduct regular dialogues.

Fourth, further broaden two-way tourism interaction by promoting joint development of quality routes by tourism departments, organizing characteristic experience activities such as rural tours and folk customs tours, and smoothing channels for mutual visits by tourists.

Fifth, further activate youth study visits by encouraging cooperation between primary, secondary, and tertiary schools, organizing youth groups to conduct study exchanges, and promoting the continuity of China-Japan friendship in the next generation.

Last year, Chinese President Xi Jinping met Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in San Francisco, reaffirming the positioning of comprehensively advancing the strategic and mutually beneficial relations between China and Japan.

However, during his recent speech at the US Congress, Kishida called China's stance "the greatest strategic challenge" to the peace and security of Japan.

"This kind of statement is undesirable, and the strategic and mutually beneficial relationship should be emphasized more," said Hatoyama.

Maintaining the long-term healthy and stable development of China-Japan relations is in the fundamental interests of the two peoples and conducive to regional peace and stability, said Yang Yu, minister-counselor of the Chinese Embassy in Japan.