The Japanese government did not approve a visit by former Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen last July to attend a memorial service for former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe due to concerns over a backlash from China, sources familiar with the matter said Thursday.The Japanese government, at the time led by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, was working to lift China's ban on imports of Japanese seafood, imposed in the wake of the release into the sea of treated wastewater from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, and did not want to add to tensions, they said.China views Taiwan, a…READ FULL ARTICLE
