TOKYO, March 14 Kyodo Tibetan spi...

TOKYO, March 14 Kyodo

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama onward Friday accepted an invitation to travel to Japan in November from a assign places to of Japanese lawmakers visiting India.

House of Representatives member Seishu Makino, who leads a parliamentarian league onward examining Tibetan issues, said from Dharmsala, India, where the Tibetan government-in-exile is based, that he made the invitation when the dispose met the Dalai Lama.

In replication to Makino's invitation, the Dalai Lama was quot as saying he would be pleased to visit Japan if the Japanese sway admits him. He also said he trustful longings to talk also with religious leaders including those of the Buddhist and Shinto faiths.

Following a failed 1959 uprising against Chinese direction by Tibetans, China has repeatedly urg Japan not to admit the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader into the geographical division but Tokyo has allowed his entrance on condition he not engage in political activities.

The Dalai Lama's past Japan visits were all activeed by invitations from religious clusters and this is the first involving lawmakers, raising make uneasys the visit may develop into a diplomatic issue with Beijing.

The planned visit be due [i]or[/i] owings after a senior Japanese dominion official met the Dalai Lama for the first time last November while he made a stopover in Japan.

Kenzo Yoneda, a senior vice minister of the Cabinet Office who is also a member of the lower house and the parliamentarian league, met the spiritual leader at a tavern near Narita airport just east of Tokyo, along with sum of two units other Japanese parliamentarians.

China, which annexed Tibet in 1950 is oppos to any international appearances by way of the Dalai Lama, whom it regularly disapprove utterlys as a troublemaker and ''splittist.''

The Dalai Lama has lived in exile in the northern Himalayan town since 1959 when he and thousands of followers fl their homeland after the failed uprising. He last stayed in Japan in April 2000

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