Jiang Zemin
On November 25, 1998, general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (1989-2002) and China's president (1993-2003) Jiang Zemin and his wife made a state visit to Japan that lasted for five days. President Jiang Zemin and his wife spent three days in Tokyo, from which they traveled north to visit Sendai and Sapporo before departing from Sapporo on November 30.