Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (Shinzo Abe) and Chinese President Xi Jinping, shook hands and exchanged polite last Thursday's G20 summit on the sidelines of the case, a Japanese official said, in an unexpected show of enthusiasm.
The world's second and third largest economies, has been a troubled relationship between months because of a row in the East China Sea tiny uninhabited islands known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China.
There are also country's wartime past disputes.
Abe is keen to improve relations with China and called for dialogue, but he has refused to negotiate any conditions. China has no interest in responding gesture.
A Japanese government official said the contact occurred shortly before G20 leaders began their major conferences, about four to five minutes, the two met and spoke through an interpreter.
In subsequent reports, China's official Xinhua News Agency reported that Abe told Xi Jinping, Chinese and Japanese relations are facing serious difficulties, China is "willing to see the situation."
Relations have been strained since a row of islands and national bitter disputes over the past few months when.
Xinhua News Agency reported, Xi reiterated China's stance that Japan should correctly handle the face of its history and the pursuit of "the way to properly handle differences and solve problems" and other sensitive issues.
It added that, Abe said he had been looking forward to seeing Xi and eager to improve relations between Japan and China.
Tensions remain high, around the islands near the playing cat and mouse game, they are two months of aircraft and ships.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang, the Greek and Abe Prior to the meeting, said that Beijing had "unequivocally" These islands belong to China.
"China-Japan relations are now facing serious difficulties, but responsibility does not lie in China," Qin told reporters at the press conference.
"Through consultation between China and Japan, different views should be effectively managed this issue," he said of the island.



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