Abe Toughens Japan’s Border Controls After Xi’s Visit Delayed
- State visit would have been first of its kind in a decade
- Separate visa suspension will halt travel Japan-China travel
Shinzo Abe, right, and Xi Jinping in Japan in June 2019.
Photographer: Kimimasa Mayama/Bloomberg
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China and Japan agreed to delay the first state visit by a Chinese president to Tokyo in about a decade due to coronavirus worries, as Japan separately announced it would quarantine travelers from some countries hit by the illness.
Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Thursday that both countries agreed to put off President Xi Jinping’s visit, which had been expected in April. The event would have been a milestone in Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s rapprochement with China.