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As Japan-China relations cool down, a bipartisan group of young parliamentarians visited China to try to communicate with the Chinese side.
[Beijing Current Affairs] On the 14th, a group of young parliamentarians from the bipartisan Japan-China Friendship Parliamentary League, who were visiting Beijing, China, met with Liu Bin, assistant vice minister of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Speaking to reporters after the meeting, leader Tadashi Takamura, a member of the Liberal Democratic Party's House of Representatives, said, ``It was a big step for us to be able to meet (with the Chinese side) directly, face-to-face,'' as Japan-China relations have cooled down.
According to Takamura, the meeting took place in the morning of the same day and lasted about two hours. The Japanese side emphasized the importance of communication and expressed concerns regarding the detention of Japanese nationals. From the Chinese side, it was said that its views regarding Japan-China relations were ``represented in detail''. In the afternoon, he also met with Yang Wanming, chairman of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, which serves as a point of contact for private-sector exchanges.
The parliamentary group consists of eight members, including Takamura and members of the Nippon Ishin no Kai, Centrist Reform Alliance, the Democratic Party of the People, and the Communist Party. He visited China from the 13th to the 15th.

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