China firmly opposes any form of official interactions with China's Taiwan region by countries that have diplomatic relations with China, and urges Japan to earnestly abide by the one-China principle, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said at a press briefing in Beijing on Friday.
Guo made the remarks in response to a media report that Japan's former Chief Cabinet Secretary Kato Katsunobu visited the Taiwan region not long ago.
"There is but one China in the world, and Taiwan is an inalienable part of China's territory. China firmly opposes any form of official interactions with the Taiwan region by countries that have diplomatic relations with China. China urges the Japanese side to earnestly abide by the one-China principle and refrain from sending wrong signals to separatist forces in Taiwan. We must also emphasize that what Japan should do now is to withdraw the erroneous remarks made by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi regarding China's Taiwan region," Guo said.
China urges Japan to earnestly abide by one-China principle: FM spokesman
A Japanese lawmaker has raised concerns over Japan's push to expand its military and its nuclear policy.
Responding to some politicians' dangerous tendency towards possessing nuclear weapons, Takara Sachika, a member of Japan's House of Councilors, said that Japan's push to strengthen its military, combined with what she called a misguided nuclear policy, not only heightens regional tensions but also directly threatens regional security.
"I think this is completely unacceptable. Japan is a country that has suffered atomic bombings and is one of the nations most aware of the threat posed by nuclear weapons. Yet such a country is openly discussing the issue of possessing nuclear weapons and even attempting to revise the principle of not allowing the introduction of nuclear weapons, one of the Three Non-Nuclear Principles. This is an extremely serious problem," Takara said.
Takara said the Japanese government's tendency to expand its military capabilities is completely contrary to the Constitution.
"From the perspective of Japan's Constitution, Japan should never have adopted a policy of ensuring security by strengthening military capabilities. Yet today, enormous effort is being poured into military expansion, and that in itself is a serious problem," said the lawmaker.
At a Diet meeting in early November 2025, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said that what she described as the Chinese central authorities' "use of force on Taiwan" could constitute a "survival-threatening situation" for Japan, and suggested the possibility of armed intervention in the Taiwan Strait, drawing strong criticism worldwide.
Takara urged Takaichi to retract her erroneous remarks as soon as possible.
"I think there is a very big problem with making such remarks that provoke other countries. It is necessary to thoroughly examine the facts as soon as possible and withdraw the relevant remarks," she said.
Japanese lawmaker criticizes nuclear weapons remarks as threat to regional security
