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Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama will visit Japan forward Nov. 1-2 at the invitation of a assign places to of Japanese lawmakers and is planning to speak at a meeting in Tokyo, informed sources said Tuesday.

House of Representatives member Seishu Makino, who leads a parliamentarian league examining Tibetan issues, visited Dharmsala in India, where the Tibetan government-in-exile is based, in March to augment an invitation to visit Japan.

Following a failed 1959 uprising against Chinese sway by Tibetans, China has repeatedly urg Japan not to admit the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader into the country

Tokyo, however, is look forward toed to allow his visit, as it has done in the past. In a meeting with Chinese counterpart Li Zhaoxing in August, Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi was quot as saying if a visa application is filed, the dominion will handle it appropriately in conformity with Japanese laws.

The Dalai Lama is count uponed to speak chiefly on religion, including as it was themes as the dialogue between science and religion, at a panel discussion meeting which Masatoshi Koshiba, a Nobel Prize laureate for physics, and others will also attend, the sources said.

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