The NY Times has a straight-up report of the visit of Hu Jintao to Japan. Interesting points from the article:

• It is the first visit by a Chinese leader in a decade.
• They discussed some thorny issues including control of an underwater natural gas field in the East China Sea and an unsolved case of poison found in frozen Chinese-made dumplings sold in Japan.
• China said it would lend Japan a pair of giant pandas, after a panda died of old age at a Tokyo zoo last week.
• The two leaders will face each other in table tennis.