Staff writer
Beijing officials did not make an appearance during a forum held Thursday to celebrate the 20th year of sister-city relations between Tokyo and Beijing, apparently because of Gov. Shintaro Ishihara's recent meeting with Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui.
But that did not faze Tokyo government officials, who simply slipped a revised schedule of events in the printed program.
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