According to the Phayul report, the delegation in a letter to the Office of Tibet, Japan stated that only Tibetans will decide on the next successor of the 14th Dalai Lama based on their culture and history.
In a sharp message to China to back off from interfering in the succession process of the next Dalai Lama the Japanese Buddhist Conference for World Federation has placed on record its position that the Tibetan people must decide the successor of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama on the basis