<figure id="attachment_3194733" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3194733" style="width: 1600px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-3194733" src="https://media.freemalaysiatoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/85bd001d-sanae-takaichi-epa-images-pic-281025-1.webp" alt="Sanae Takaichi" width="1600" height="1000" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3194733" class="wp-caption-text">Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said China is an important neighbour for Japan. (EPA Images pic)</figcaption></figure>
TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Wednesday she is &#8220;always open&#8221; to dialogue with China amid a diplomatic row between Tokyo and Beijing over comments she made about Taiwan.
&#8220;China is an important neighbour for Japan, and we need to build constructive and stable relationships,&#8221; Takaichi told a news conference.
&#8220;Japan is always open to dialogue with China. We&#8217;re not shutting our door.&#8221;
China and Japan are enmeshed in a spat over Takaichi&#8217;s suggestion in November that Tokyo could intervene militarily in any attack on the self-ruled democratic island.
China claims Taiwan as part of its territory and has threatened to use force to bring it under its control.
The comments triggered a sharp diplomatic backlash from Beijing, which has urged its citizens to avoid travelling to Japan.
Chinese military aircraft locked radar onto Japanese jets in the latest incident this month, prompting Tokyo to summon Beijing&#8217;s ambassador.

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