BEIJING (Reuters) -China's foreign&nbsp;ministry&nbsp;said on Monday that&nbsp;China&nbsp;and&nbsp;Japan&nbsp;have&nbsp;agreed to&nbsp;postpone&nbsp;a&nbsp;visit&nbsp;by the&nbsp;head&nbsp;of&nbsp;Japan's Komeito party, the junior&nbsp;partner&nbsp;in the&nbsp;coalition&nbsp;government, given current strains between the two countries.
Natsuo Yamaguchi was planning to&nbsp;visit&nbsp;China&nbsp;from Aug. 28 to 30 in hopes of meeting&nbsp;China's President Xi Jinping and to hand over a personal letter from Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.
"In light of current&nbsp;China-Japan&nbsp;relations, the two sides have&nbsp;agreed to&nbsp;postpone&nbsp;the Komeito delegation's&nbsp;visit&nbsp;to&nbsp;China,"&nbsp;ministry&nbsp;spokesperson Wang Wenbin said at a regular news briefing.
Wang added that&nbsp;China&nbsp;attached great importance to exchanges and cooperation with the party which has long been committed to promoting friendship between&nbsp;China&nbsp;and&nbsp;Japan, and "stands ready to work with it to make active efforts for improving and growing&nbsp;China-Japan&nbsp;relations".
Despite opposition both within&nbsp;Japan&nbsp;and from abroad, the country began releasing treated radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific last week.
China&nbsp;has strongly opposed the move and banned all aquatic product imports from&nbsp;Japan.
Japan&nbsp;summoned the&nbsp;Chinese&nbsp;ambassador on Monday after various offices received what it called harassing phone calls from&nbsp;China&nbsp;regarding the release of the treated water.
Further straining Sino-Japanese ties, Kishida and the leaders of the United States and South Korea met last week and issued their strongest joint condemnation yet of&nbsp;China's "dangerous and aggressive behaviour" in the South&nbsp;China&nbsp;Sea.
(Reporting by Andrew Hayley and Beijing Newsroom; Editing by Jacqueline Wong and Hugh Lawson)

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China, Japan agree to postpone head of Japan coalition partner visit -Chinese ministry