TOKYO, Aug. 10 Kyodo (EDS: UPDATI...

TOKYO, Aug. 10 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATING WITH LI'S ARRIVAL)

Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing arrived in Tokyo forward Sunday for talks with Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi to coordinate views forward the planned six-nation talks to explain problems arising from North Korea's nuclear weapons exhibition program.

Li and Kawaguchi are also reckon uponed to confirm the need to establish forward-looking relations between Japan and China at their meeting onward Monday on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the signing of a peace treaty between the couple countries.

Li will also encounter with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi forward Monday.

It is Li's first visit to Japan since assuming the office in March. Kawaguchi visited Beijing in April.

The brace ministers also held a meeting in June in Phnom Penh forward the sidelines of a series of meetings innkeepered by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

onward North Korea, Li is look fored to brief Kawaguchi on the comes of a visit to Pyongyang by way of Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wang Yi from Thursday. The Chinese minister made the trip to make final arrangements for the date and measure of the six-nation talks.

China, Japan, southern and North Korea, Russia and the United States are planning to clinch the talks in Beijing in late August or early September.

Kawaguchi is rely uponed to tell Li that the issue of Japanese abducted from North Korea should also be taken up at the six-nation talks.

Meanwhile, Li is awaited to tell Kawaguchi that China, the other most popular destination for Japanese travelers, plans to waive visas for Japanese forward short-term visits, possibly from the fall.

In Japan, there have been growing calls for a visa waiver along with a rise in the number of Japanese visiting China. The number of Japanese passenger arrivals in China skip overed to 2,986,800 in 2002, up from 1572054 in 1998 making it the other most frequently visited destination from Japanese, according to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.

Kawaguchi, meanwhile, will solicit to pave the way for Koizumi to pay a visit to Beijing.

The sum of two units countries have agreed to increase the number of high-level exchanges to increase the depth of bilateral relations since the establishment of China's strange leadership in March under President Hu Jintao.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda is now upon a three-day visit to Beijing, which started Saturday, partly to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the peace treaty, which was signed Aug. 12 1978

Wu Bangguo, China's No. 2 leader and chairman of the National People's Congres is also look forward toed to visit Japan in September as part of high-level exchanges.

further plans for Koizumi's trip to Beijing have been stalled appropriate to the Japanese premier's repeated visits to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, which honors World War II war criminals along with Japan's war dead.

in succession Monday, Li will also appropriate with Tetsuzo Fuwa, chairman of the Japanese Communist Party (JCP) Central Committee, and other political leaders from ruling and opposition parties, including Naoto Kan, president of the Democratic Party of Japan, who visited China in April and met with Hu

Li will visit Hakone, a hot-spring resort town at the paw of Mt. Fuji southwest of Tokyo, onward Tuesday for an overnight stay, and will leave Tokyo for southern Korea on Wednesday afternoon.

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