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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Japan FM downplays 'bad neighbour' label on China AFP - 2 hours 53 minutes ago Send IM Story Print TOKYO (AFP) - – Japan's foreign minister on Sunday rejected a claim that China is a bad neighbour as Tokyo tried to put a lid on anti-Beijing sentiment, appearing keen to rebuild ties after a bruising territorial row. Speaking a day after nationalists rallied against China and a senior ruling-party politician denounced Beijing, Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara insisted that the two countries were good neighbours. "I believe Japan and China should seek a path for co-existence and co-prosperity by firmly building strategic, mutually beneficial relations as good neighbours," Jiji Press news agency quoted Maehara as telling reporters. The remarks were in response to and downplayed reported comments by Yukio Edano, deputy secretary-general of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan. Addressing a meeting north of Tokyo on Saturday, Edano called China "a bad neighbour" and said it was impossible for Japan to build "mutually beneficial" ties with the nation, according to Japanese media reports. Arguing that China was not a law-abiding nation, Edano said "companies that have an economic partnership with such a country are quite a soft touch," the Asahi, Yomiuri and other dailies reported. Edano's comment came as Tokyo seeks to mend fences with Beijing during a bitter spat over a disputed island chain, called Senkaku by Japan and Diaoyu by China. Maehara, who has a record of tough remarks towards China, on Sunday sought dialogue with Beijing while maintaining Tokyo's stance that there was no territorial dispute over the islands as Japan has been administering them. The row started when Japan's coastguard arrested the captain of a Chinese trawler on September 8 after he rammed two of their patrol boats near the islands, he said on a Sunday television show on the private Fuji network. "It is important to hold diplomatic discussions on measures to prevent a recurrence. We always keep the door open," he said. "I believe building strategic, mutually beneficial relations is possible. "Of course we make our cases on what concerns our sovereignty, but getting along well with China benefits people's economic activity and lives. This is the same for the people of China," he said. The ship collisions caused no injuries, but the diplomatic damage was severe, with China freezing high-level talks. Japan released the Chinese captain on September 25. China last week released three Japanese construction company workers detained in late September for filming in a military area but one of their colleagues was still being held in China for further questioning. Katsuya Okada, Maehara's predecessor and currently ruling-party secretary general, also struck a softer tone Sunday. "I've also been saying they are a country with a different system. We have to act while recognising it. China is an important country," he said. Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Sunday left for Belgium for Asia-Europe summit talks but reports said he was unlikely to have a bilateral meeting with China's Premier Wen Jiabao. Kan told visiting Mongolian Prime Minister Sukhbaatar Batbold late Saturday that Tokyo was ready to cooperate in developing rare earth minerals in the sprawling central Asian nation. China has a virtual monopoly on rare earths, which are indispensable in manufacturing goods ranging from consumer electronics to hybrid cars, but industry sources said their shipments to Japan were disrupted during the spat. The Sankei Shimbun reported Sunday that the US navy and Japanese maritime forces were likely to hold a joint drill immediately after President Barack Obama comes to Japan in November for Asia-Pacific economic forum talks. The drill, which the conservative daily described as a mock operation to retake the islands if China occupied the chain, will be conducted partly in the East China Sea, it said, citing anonymous defence sources. Kan is under attack from political conservatives who claim he caved in to Chinese bullying. Nationalist groups rallied in Tokyo on Saturday against China and accused Kan's government of suffering a "diplomatic defeat" to the fast-growing neighbour. 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