A student looks at sculptures at the Museum of the War of Chinese People's Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in Beijing, April 6, 2007.

The war may have ended more than 60 years ago, but in this Beijing suburb gaggles of schoolchildren and office workers daily relive battles the Chinese fought with Japanese invaders so long ago.

Premier Wen Jiabao flies to Tokyo on Wednesday, the first time a leader of China has visited its eastern neighbor and bitter wartime adversary in seven years.