【明報專訊】RELATIONS between China and Japan have been thawing this year. After Premier Li Keqiang's visit to Japan in May, Shinzō Abe, the Japanese Prime Minister, is to visit China this week, the first official visit made by a Japanese Prime Minister in seven years. Not only will he meet with President Xi Jinping, Premier Li Keqiang and other Chinese leaders, but he will also attend a commemorative event celebrating the fortieth anniversary of the signature of the Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and China and the First China-Japan Third-Market Cooperation Forum. After Abe's China visit, Carrie Lam, the Hong Kong Chief Executive, will also visit Japan, opening a new chapter for Hong Kong-Japan relations.