Chinese President Hu Jintao (R) meets with relatives of Hiroshi Ohira, the oldest son of the late former Japanese Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira, in Tokyo, Japan, May 6, 2008.

TOKYO, May 6 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao met with the kin of China's old Japanese friends on Tuesday, the first day of his current "warm-spring" trip to Japan.

"Sino-Japanese friendship conforms with the trend of the times and the common aspiration of the two peoples. My visit to Japan is aimed at further enhancing the friendly feelings between the people of the two countries and push for further development of Sino-Japanese friendly cooperation," Hu told family members of four late Japanese friends from the country's civil community, who made outstanding contributions to the normalization and improvement of relations between China and Japan over the past several decades.