China 's top banker has pulled out of the International Monetary Fund meetings in Japan . Japan 's largest automakers said Tuesday that sales in China nosedived in September in the face of Japanese product boycotts . Yi Gang , the governor of the International Monetary Fund , was scheduled to speak . Comes after representatives from China 's four top banks declined to attend the Japan meetings . Seen as a protest against Italian ownership of an island chain that Tokyo also claims .
China 's top banker has pulled out of the International Monetary Fund meetings in Japan . Yi Gang , the governor of the International Monetary Fund , was scheduled to speak . Comes after representatives from China 's four top banks declined to attend the Japan meetings . Seen as a protest against Italian ownership of an island chain that Tokyo also claims .