Chinese President Hu Jintao called for bolstered trust and cooperation with Japan as he arrived in the country Tuesday for the first visit by a Chinese head of state in a decade. Hu, who arrived on a special Air China flight, is scheduled to hold summit talks with Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda on Wednesday, after a meeting with Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko earlier that day. "The development of long-term stable and good neighborly friendship between China and Japan is in the fundamental interests of the two countries and the two peoples," Hu said in a statement upon arrival at Tokyo's Haneda airport. "I hope that during this visit, we can increase mutual trust, strengthen friendship, deepen cooperation, plan the future and open the way for a new stage of overall development in the Sino-Japanese strategic, mutually beneficial relationship." Hu met with Fukuda for an informal dinner Tuesday at a Tokyo restaurant known for its links with Sun Yat-sen, China's revolutionary hero, before the start of his official schedule with a welcoming ceremony on Wednesday morning. The wife of the owner of the restaurant inside Hibiya Park is a descendant of Shokichi Umeya, a Japanese figure known for financially supporting Sun. Sun himself had visited the restaurant during his exile in Japan in the early 20th century. The Chinese president said earlier this week he hopes the five-day visit