Man denied entry to China lives in airport

TOKYO, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- A Chinese citizen denied entry into China eight times says he will live in Tokyo's Narita Airport until his country allows him to go home.

Feng Zhenghu, 55, said Chinese immigration officials forced him to fly back to Japan four times when he caught flights to Shanghai and Japanese officials prevented him from flying the other four times because he would have been refused entry into China, CNN reported Friday.

Feng said he was never given a reason for not being allowed into China, but he believes it may be related to previous work as a human rights activist in China.

Feng, who openly supported China's pro-democracy movement in the 1980s, said he was pressured to leave China in April, ahead of the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, CBS News reported.

The traveler, who has now spent more than a month at the international arrival concourse, said he will not leave the airport until China allows him back in, despite an offer of asylum from Japan.

He said he now spends his time walking the airport in homemade T-shirts detailing his plight in Chinese and English. Feng also keeps a blog and a Twitter account to detail his experiences.