Hu Ping, the renowned leader of China’s democracy movement and honorary editor-in-chief of ‘Beijing Spring,’ visited Japan. On March 16, 2024, he held an international seminar titled ‘The Challenge of Chinese Liberal Intellectuals and Japan’s Role’ at Meiji University in Japan. On March 18, 2024, he held a dinner at the Japan Correspondents’ Association, and on the same evening, at a Konan restaurant in Kabukicho, Shinjuku, Tokyo
dinner included: Seishu Makino (former member of the House of Representatives, Vice Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry), Jiwang Jiapo Aroya (Japanese representative/ambassador to His Holiness the Dalai Lama), Hong Kong democracy figures Poon Ka-wai and Lee Yi-tung, Japanese human rights activists Daisuke Kitai, Keitaro Ide, Jotaka Ishida, as well as journalists from Kyodo News and Asahi Shimbun. Other participants included journalists from Kyodo News and Asahi Shimbun, journalists Jia Jia, Wu Yue Sanren, reporter Zheng (DW), Wu Wei, Dong Peng, and others, all gathering at a Hunan restaurant. The shop owner, Li Xiaomu, arrived.






