The two sides established the military attachi’s office in each
other's country in 1974. The bilateral military exchanges started
at the end of 70s', and kept growing healthily before 1989. Such
exchanges were suspended for some time after 1989. In 1995, the
high level military exchanges resumed as Tetsuya Nishimoto,
Japanese Chairman of Joint Staff Meeting visited China.
The year 2000 witnessed continuous progress in the bilateral
military exchanges. In the first ten-day period of April, Member of
the Central Military Commission and Chief of General Staff of PLA
Fu Quanyou paid an official good-will visit at invitation. In the
last ten-day period of June, Chairman of the Self-Defense Forces
Joint Staff Meeting visited China. In the second ten-day period of
October, Chairman of General Staff of Japan Air Self-Defense Force
(JASDF) visited China. In November, General Xiong Guangkai, deputy
chief of general staff of the People's Liberation Army, went to
Japan to hold the annual defense consultation with Permanent Deputy
Director General of the Japanese Defense Agency Ema Seiji.