Negotiations for the first Japanese emperor to visit China in 1992 were kept so secret that the prime minister at the time, Kiichi Miyazawa, complained he was not sufficiently consulted.
Declassified documents showed Tokyo urged Chinese officials to refrain from publicly speaking about the disputed islands to avoid causing rift among the Japanese public.
Tokyo secretly asked Beijing not to make territorial claims to the Japan-controlled Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea to avoid friction ahead of the Japanese emperor's visit to China in 1992, according to to Japanese diplomatic documents declassified on Dec. 20
Tokyo and Beijing made arrangements behind the scenes in 1991 with an eye toward China signing the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, according to newly released diplomatic documents.
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