China to allow Japan navy visit
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China says that Japanese navy ships will be allowed to visit China this month for the first time since World War II.
A foreign ministry spokesman, Qin Gang, says permission for the visit comes after a Chinese missile destroyer visited Japan last year.
A previous attempt at exchanged naval visits in 2002 was cancelled after former Japanese prime minister Junichiro Koizumi went ahead with a visit to a controversial war shrine in Tokyo, angering Beijing.
