Former Liberal Democratic Party Secretary-General Toshihiro Nikai expressed regret over a Chinese warplane's recent violation of Japanese airspace in talks with a key Chinese official in Beijing on Wednesday.
Nikai is visiting the Chinese capital as head of a delegation of a nonpartisan Japanese lawmaker group for friendship with China.
The delegation had a meeting with Zhao Leji, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, or parliament, and the third-ranking official of the Communist Party of China.
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