Justice Minister Okiharu Yasuoka will make a three-day visit to China from Dec. 3, marking the first visit by a Japanese justice minister to the country in seven years, Justice Ministry officials said Tuesday.
Yasuoka is scheduled to meet his Chinese counterpart, Gao Changli, on Dec. 4 and expected to announce a Japanese policy to regularly accept Chinese legal trainees at the ministry and at its courts, the officials said.
The plan to invite Chinese judges and prosecutors to Japan as trainees is consistent with China's efforts to reform its judicial system and nurture experts for settling trade conflicts before entering the World Trade Organization.