Anti-Japanese protesters carry a banner during their protest in front of the Japanese embassy in Beijing. Teams from China and Japan have met in a bid to seek common ground over their blood-soaked history, a sensitive exercise in a region where events generations ago can still dictate today's politics.

Visitors view a Japanese war-time army flag displayed at the Anti-Japanese War Museum in Dayi county in China's southwestern province of Sichuan.

Visitors sit near the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall in Nanjing.

(China Daily December 27, 2006)