Japanese Prime Minister Mr. Yoshihiko Noda has postponed his visit to Moscow because Mr. Vladimir Putin was feeling unwell, quoted reports from Japan on Friday but is that the real reason as Mr. Putin's spokesman Mr. Dmitry Peskov has denied that Mr. Putin was ill.

"It's about [Putin's] health problem. This is not something that can be made public", Mr. Noda told officials on the northern island of Hokkaido, while discussing with them about the reason of delay of his trip, reported Reuters that quoted a Japanese news reports citing one of the officials.

According to sources, Mr. Noda had plans to visit Moscow in December but since Mr. Putin was feeling unwell, the trip had been postponed from December to January. But Mr. Peskov's statements on Kommersant FM radio confirmed that the president's health is absolutely fine and normal and it is just that he has a very busy and overloaded work schedule.

Mr. Peskov added that Mr. Noda's visit is yet not confirmed as no dates had been fixed yet. He explained that the rumors generated from the media reached the foreign leaders, whose aides "then start to operate on the basis of these rumors".

Moreover, Mr. Putin's chief foreign policy aide Mr. Yury Ushakov has confirmed reporters that the talks with Mr. Noda have been preliminarily scheduled for January.