Some Chinese buyers still refuse to accept Japanese products after rows

Although trade between China and Japan is likely to continue to decline in the fourth quarter of this year, the pace of contraction may ease, experts said on Monday.

"China-Japan economic ties are now at a phase of gradually coming off the bottom and the fall in bilateral trade is likely to slow before the end of the year, mainly owing to sharply contracted trade figures in the same period last year following territorial rows," Yao Haitian, a researcher from the Institute of Japanese Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told China Daily.