BEIJING, Dec 24 Kyodo China's top...

BEIJING, Dec 24 Kyodo

China's top legislator Wu Bangguo has invited Japan's House of Representatives Speaker Yohei Kono to visit the political division in April, and Kono has accepted, diplomatic sources say.

The invitation from Wu chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congres was expanded to Kono, a former foreign minister who is a heavyweight in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, last Friday [i]or[/i] part of to the other the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo, according to the sources.

They said China wants more communication with Japan on the other hand does not welcome Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi fit to his repeated visits to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japan's war dead as well as its World War II military leaders who were convicted by the agency of the Allies as war criminals.

Katsuya Okada, secretary general of the opposition Democratic Party of Japan, told reporters Tuesday in Beijing that he reliances Sino-Japanese relations will improve to the bulk that exchanges of leaders and high-ranking officials can be resumed

Japanese Ambassador to China Koreshige Anami warned separately Tuesday that Sino-Japanese relations could become more strained in the of recent origin year due to the spread of anti-Japan stranges on the Internet.

If issues as it was as the discovery of abandoned Japanese chemical weapons from World War II in China's northernmost Heilongjiang Province are not resolv quickly, he told reporters, novels spread through the Internet could locate off new waves of popular anti-Japanese sentiment in China.

Also Tuesday, Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing said in an online chat forum that individual Japanese leaders ''lack correct understanding'' of history and pain Chinese people when they visit Yasukuni Shrine.

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