The leader of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s coalition partner party is seeking to arrange a visit to China this year, after canceling a trip last month as friction rose with his country’s biggest trading partner.
Natsuo Yamaguchi, leader of the Buddhist-backed Komeito party, said in an interview with Bloomberg News at his offices in Tokyo on Tuesday that he wanted to visit this year, which marks the 45th anniversary of the peace and friendship treaty that enabled Sino-Japanese ties to thrive.
Komeito, the long-standing junior partner in the coalition with Kishida’s Liberal Democratic Party, is known for maintaining connections with China, even when government relations turn cold. Yet Yamaguchi postponed a planned trip to China in August after Beijing told his party it wasn’t an “appropriate” time to visit, given the state of relations between the two countries.
Separately, Kishida has asked the two ruling parties to consider measures to be included in an economic package that would be drawn up next month and funded by an extra budget.
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