Japanese media reported that the Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Kishita refused to meet with the Chinese ambassador to the Chinese ambassador to Japan. He was criticized by Japanese netizens and did not understand etiquette.
The Kyodo News Agency on Saturday (March 25) quoted a number of people familiar with the matter reported that Japanese Prime Minister Kishita, Kishita, refused to meet him before he left at the end of February.This rarely shows the tension of relations between Japan and China.
People familiar with the matter said that Kong Yanyou's previous Chinese ambassadors in Japan had met with the Japanese Prime Minister before leaving, but Kishida Wenxiong could not break the tradition in the context of the tension between Japan and China.
People familiar with the matter said that Kong Yanyou proposed to meet with Kishida Wenxiong before leaving, but the Japanese government refused on the grounds that Kishida Wenxiong had a "conflict in schedule".Japanese Foreign Minister Lin Fang was subsequently meeting with Kong Yanyou, but the Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not announce the above meeting.
The Japanese government sources said that Kong Yanyou begged to be rejected and did not bring any problems in diplomatic etiquette, because the level of the Prime Minister was higher than the ambassador.
Since 2001, only one of the five Chinese ambassadors in Japan has not met with the Japanese Prime Minister at the departure.In September 2007, Wang Yi, then the Ambassador of China in Japan, did not see Shinzo Abe, who was then a Japanese Prime Minister before leaving Japan. The latter suddenly announced his out of office on the grounds of his health deterioration.
