(ECNS) -- A senior Japanese foreign ministry official left China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing on Tuesday afternoon without responding to any question from the media, CCTV reported.
Masaaki Kanai, head of the Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau at Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, visited China on Monday. Japanese media reported that during the trip, he was expected to discuss with Chinese officials about Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's recent remarks on Taiwan that Tokyo could deploy the Self-Defense Forces in a Taiwan emergency.