山口公明代表が訪中　最高指導部と会談模索

　【北京時事】公明党の山口那津男代表は２２日、中国・北京を訪問した。習近平国家主席宛ての岸田文雄首相の親書を携えており、習氏を含む中国最高指導部との会談を模索する。２３日に帰国する。（2023/11/22-13:07）

Natsuo Yamaguchi, leader of Komeito, the junior coalition partner of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, landed in Beijing on Wednesday for a two-day trip to China.
   As he carried with him a letter from Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida addressed to Chinese President Xi Jinping, Yamaguchi is hoping to meet with members of China's top leadership team, including Xi, during his visit.
   "This year marks the 45th anniversary of the conclusion of the Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and China," Yamaguchi told reporters after arriving in Beijing. "I want to promote party diplomacy following the recent Japan-China summit meeting." Kishida and Xi met in San Francisco last week.
   It is Yamaguchi's first visit to China since August 2019, and the seventh since he became Komeito chief in 2009.
   Through the trip, Yamaguchi aims to lay the groundwork for realizing mutual visits between the two Asian nations' leaders by creating momentum for bilateral dialogue, including pushing for the resumption of an exchange council of Japan's ruling parties and the Chinese Communist Party.