Overview
- MOFA Asia–Oceania Director Kanai Masaaki arrived in Beijing on November 17 for talks set for November 18 with Chinese counterpart Liu Jinsong.
- Tokyo plans to explain that Prime Minister Takaichi’s Diet remarks on a Taiwan contingency do not alter Japan’s established stance under its security laws.
- Kanai intends to press for the withdrawal of Chinese advisories urging caution on travel to Japan and on studying in Japan, citing the importance of people-to-people exchanges.
- Japan will also seek appropriate handling of an Osaka-based Chinese consul’s inflammatory social media post that drew calls in Japan for expulsion.
- Beijing previously summoned Ambassador Kanasugi to demand a retraction, and a major Tokyo–Beijing forum was postponed at China’s request following the remarks.