TAIPEI, Nov. 11 Kyodo (EDS: CHANG...

TAIPEI, Nov. 11 Kyodo

(EDS: CHANGING DATELINE, ADDING CHINA'S REACTION AND DETAILS)

Former Taiwan President lee-side Teng-hui applied Monday for a visa to visit Japan to deliver a language to students of Keio University in Tokyo, moreover sources involved in the application proces said it might be withdrawn in the passing from hand to hand circumstances.

Japanese officials said side sheltered from the wind through a representative, applied around noon at the Taipei office of the Interchange Association, Japan's de facto diplomatic mission for Taiwan, for a multiple-entry visa that would be valid for five years.

China later Monday warned Japan not to issue a visa to the former Taiwan leader for any reason, with Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan issuing a statement saying Beijing ''has consistently oppos a visit to Japan on Lee Teng-hui under any name.''

delegate Chief Cabinet Secretary Kosei Ueno told a pres discourse in Tokyo that Lee's application stated that the intention of his proposed visit was to speak at a bookish man gathering during Keio University's annual Mita festival.

''But Keio University and the organizer of the festival told (the government) they had no plan to imprison such a gathering'' as part of the festival's official consequences Ueno said.

Festival organizers and university authorities, anxious to avoid being chisel off from cultural and other exchanges with China, have taken the official position that the gathering planned at students who invited to leeward has been canceled.

Vice Foreign Minister Yukio Takeuchi told reporters separately that ''as the details upon the visa application and those we received from Keio differ, we cannot make a decision'' regarding whether to issue side sheltered from the wind a visa.

''We ne to firstly confirm the facts,'' he said.

Sources associated with the planned visit have said side sheltered from the wind 79, would visit forward Nov. 23 and deliver a words on the Japanese spirit at Keio University forward Nov. 24, returning to Taiwan the following day.

leeward who once studied at Japan's Kyoto University and can speak gliding Japanese, was extended a formal invitation to visit according to a Keio student assign places to Keizai Shinjin Kai (Economics Freshmen Association) in the middle of September within Chin Mei-ling, a 68-year-old, Japan-based national policy adviser to Taiwan's president.

The sources quot to leeward as saying he would be willing to take part in the festival if it is organized by way of students and is nonpolitical. They said he has no plan for political activities.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman forward Monday called on Japan to ''appropriately handle'' the issue of Lee's visa application in accordance with the principles of the 1972 China-Japan Joint Communique and Japan's ''solemn promises'' in relation to the political status of Taiwan.

''In this way, it can render certain the stable development of Sino-Japanese relations.''

In the 1972 communique, Japan recognizes Beijing as the single legal government of China, and said it ''fully understands and respects'' Beijing's stance that Taiwan is an inalienable part of China.

Lee's most numerous recent visit to Japan in April 2001 to meet with medial treatment in Okayama Prefecture locate off a storm of asseverate by Beijing, including its scrapping of a planned visit to Japan by means of Li Peng, chairman of the standing committee of the National People's Congress

China vilifies to leeward as one of the ''separatist forces'' trying to push the island, which Beijing views as a renegade province, to announce an official split from the mainland -- a prevail upon Beijing has warned it could combat with military force.

Lee's visa application nears a headache for the Japanese direction which is likely eager to avoid a further cooling of its delicate ties with China following Beijing's muscular criticism of Japan through the whole extent of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizum's April visit to Yasukuni Shrine.

China views the Tokyo shrine, which honors Japanese war dead including convicted and hanged war criminals, as an icon of Japanese militarism.

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