Lee Teng-hui arrives in Japan for visit amid protests from China
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China lashed out at Japan yesterday for allowing former Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui to visit the country despite threats from Beijing that it could damage ties between the Asian rivals.
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Lee Teng-hui&#39;s trip to Japan dealt a serious blow to the political foundation of China-Japan relations, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Liu Jianchao said yesterday.
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Japan said Thursday it will issue an entry visa to former Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui for a private trip by the end of the month, in a move that could further aggravate its already strained relationship with China.
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Japan has decided to issue a visa for former Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui to visit this year, a government spokesman said Thursday, a decision that could exacerbate tense relations with China.
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The government issued a visa Tuesday to former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui and China quickly reacted by urging Japan to cancel the move.
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Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister Wu Dawei has called in Japan&#39;s ambassador to express China&#39;s strong opposition to Tokyo&#39;s decision to issue a visa to former Taiwan president Lee Teng-hui, state TV reports.
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Japan issued a tourist visa yesterday for former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui, prompting another round of angry protests from China.
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TOKYO - Japan and China should try to resolve their differences calmly, China&#39;s ambassador to Japan said Saturday, a day after Tokyo filed a protest with Beijing over the intrusion of a Chinese nuclear submarine.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will  visit China on October 8 and South Korea the next day for talks  with their leaders in a bid to repair ties frayed by disputes  over their bitter wartime past, but North Korea's nuclear  threat looks set to grab a prominent place on the agenda.
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Former Taiwan president Lee Teng-hui strongly defended his visit to a Tokyo war shrine that had angered Beijing and clouded Sino-Japanese ties, and repeated his view that the self-ruled island was independent.
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Former Taiwan president Lee Teng-hui, despised by Beijing for asserting the self-ruled island's sovereignty, paid his respects at Tokyo's Yasukuni war shrine on Thursday, despite China's objections.
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Japan lodged a formal protest with the Chinese government on Friday after determining that an unidentified nuclear submarine that entered its territorial waters this week belonged to China.
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Former Taiwan president Lee Teng-hui  left for Japan on Monday on a controversial visit that has  sparked furious protests from China.
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Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda will  make his first visit to China next week in a bid to strengthen  ties, but with a breakthrough in a natural resources dispute  unlikely he could face further trouble back home.
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Japan plans to allow former Taiwan  President Lee Teng-hui to visit for a sightseeing tour, the  government said on Thursday, prompting an angry protest from  China at a time of already frosty ties.
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North Korea&#39;s No. 2 leader arrived in Beijing Monday for a visit that a state newspaper said Chinese leaders were expected to use to press the North to resume stalled six-nation talks on the dispute over its nuclear program.
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China warned Japan not to allow former Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui to visit, calling him a threat to peace between Taiwan and the mainland.