Thailand's ousted prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, was in Tokyo on Friday, but Japanese officials said they had no plans to meet him out of concerns over relations with the current caretaker government in Bangkok.
Thaksin arrived in Tokyo late Thursday on his first visit to Japan since being toppled from office Sept. 19 in a bloodless military coup.
"Now is time for me to relax, get together with my family, see my old friends," Thaksin said Thursday after arriving at Narita airport.
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