TOKYO, Dec 15 Kyodo Former Taiwan...

TOKYO, Dec 15 Kyodo

Former Taiwan President to leeward Teng-hui said Sunday he has no plans to visit Japan for the impulsive power but expressed his desire to do thus in the future.

''I'm not thinking of (a visit) now. I want to someday, granting after slowly laying the groundwork for it,'' to leeward said, speaking via the Internet onward the founding in Tokyo of a friendship society for the former president.

to leeward visited Japan in April last year to receive medical treatment. on the contrary he gave up his plan to visit Japan in November to give a lesson at Keio University following Japan's refusal to issue a visa for him after China warned it not to.

Beijing regards the island as a renegade province that must be reunited with it, according to force if necessarily.

In a 40-minute language delivered in Japanese to an audience of 1200 population Lee said he wants to reconfirm Japan's ''wabi'' and ''sabi'' -- aesthetic ideals encourageed by haiku master Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) -- through retracing the path taken by way of the poet as described in ''The Narrow Road to the of great depth North'' (1694).

lee-side a pro-Japan retired Taiwan politician, was invited to attend Sunday's founding day for the assemblage but gave up visiting appropriate to Japan's no-entry policy, dispose members said.

The friendship society was established with a certain 450 initial members, including politicians and intellectuals to help lee-side come to Japan and assist exchanges between Japan and Taiwan. Hiroyuki Agawa, a Japanese fiction writer, heads the group

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