China's central bank governor and finance minister won't be attending IMF and World Bank meetings in Tokyo in an apparent snub to Japan that comes as the two Asian giants remain at odds over a cluster of islands both claim. "From the perspective of senior Chinese officials, they don't want to be seen in Japan or in any way being soft on Japan. This crisis with Japan, and indirectly with the U.S., is more important to them than the IMF," Robert Dujarric, a faculty member at Temple University, Japan Campus.