Hu Jintao may visit Japan
Chinese President Hu Jintao may visit Japan in January, in the first trip by a Chinese head of state to Tokyo in nearly a decade, as the Asian powers repair ties, a newspaper said yesterday
The two countries are arranging his visit to Japan in January, the Yomiuri Shimun said, quoting unnamed government sources. Premier Wen Jiabao may also visit Japan in January, the mass-circulation daily said.
But Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuhisa Shiozaki denied the trip had been set.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. "There is no such fact," Shiozaki, the government spokesman, told reporters.
The report came after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's landmark visit this week to Beijing and Seoul, where he invited leaders to make return trips to Japan. A Japanese official said at the time that Hu and Wen accepted his invitation.
Abe's visit was the first by a Japanese prime minister to Beijing for five years.
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