Li said that improved relations between the two sides hinge on Japan taking a "correct view of history."
Japan's attitude toward its history had "deeply hurt the national feeling of the Chinese people and brought complexity to Sino-Japanese relations," Li said.
Despite the appeals, anti-Japanese activists have posted calls on Web sites for more protests on the Labor Day holiday, May 1, and on May 4 -- the date of a 1919 student uprising over a treaty that ceded part of China to Japan.



