CHINA PM WRAPS UP VISIT TO JAPAN !

Jiabao sought to be conciliatory during his visit. Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao has wrapped up a three-day landmark visit to Japan that was aimed at warming ties between the two countries.
After a formal address to parliament on Thursday, he spent his last day enjoying a lighter schedule in the ancient Japanese capital of Kyoto.
Mr Wen, who is the first Chinese leader to visit Japan since 2000, said both sides had succeeded in melting the ice.
But he added that problems between the two nations would take time to solve.
Mr Wen's trip was an attempt to build on a fragile detente after a visit to China by Japan's prime minister in October.
'Home run'
In Kyoto, one of the country's most beautiful cities, Mr Wen took part in a traditional tea ceremony.
He then pitted himself against some students in a game of baseball.

KEY ISSUES

History: Japan's neighbours often think it has not done enough to atone for wartime atrocities
Trade: Bilateral trade is growing strongly
North Korea: Japan often takes a tougher stance than China over the nuclear issue
East China Sea: Beijing and Tokyo disagree over the boundary between their exclusive economic zones
Security: Japan wants to revise is pacifist constitution, which concerns China. China's military expansion concerns Japan

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"I loved baseball as a child. I wanted to play baseball if I came to Japan," he said, sporting a jersey with the number 35 to represent the number of years the two countries have had bilateral relations.
He also visited a farmer, trying out his tractor and planting tomato seeds, and laid flowers at the memorial to former Chinese PM Zhou Enlai, who helped normalise ties between the two countries.
Mr Wen then moved on to Osaka, where he met business leaders and politicians, before heading home.
Reciting a poem he had written to sum up his visit, he told them: "Spring has come. The sun shines brightly. The cherry tree blossoms proudly and the snow and ice have melted."
But, he gave a more guarded assessment of Sino-Japanese relations to Kyodo news agency, saying: "I cannot say all problems have been solved. We need more time."
The BBC's Chris Hogg, in Tokyo, says Japanese officials are convinced that the three-day tour has been a success.
The tone of Mr Wen's addresses has seemed different from what the Japanese are used to hearing from Chinese leaders, he says.
Mr Wen delivered a message of friendship, collaboration and co-operation to Japan's parliament, or Diet, on Thursday, but asked the government to match its apologies over its World War II with concrete action.
However, he said that just a few militarist leaders were to blame and that most Japanese people were also war victims.
Atonement
Japan and China have been at odds in recent years over Japan's World War II aggression, and China has often accused Japan of not fully atoning for its actions.

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Our correspondent says some commentators in Japan have interpreted that as a warning to Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe not to visit the Yasukuni shrine honouring its war dead, which the Chinese believe glorifies militarism.
The last Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi visited the shrine many times as leader - prompting the Chinese to refuse to hold bilateral meetings with him.
Mr Wen said that "to reflect on history is not to dwell on hard feelings, but to remember and learn from the past to open a better future".
But several difficult issues remain, including the dispute over who owns oil and gas reserves buried under the East China Sea.
Japan accuses China of being secretive about its rapidly growing defence budget, while Beijing is wary of plans to revise Japan's pacifist constitution to make it easier to deploy troops.

BBC NEWS REPORT.