Speaking to Kyodo News at Tokyo's Narita airport, the Dalai Lama, who won the same prize in 1989, said the Chinese government does "not appreciate different opinions at all".
He also said building an open, transparent society is "the only way to save all people of China" but that some "hardliners" inside the leadership were stuck in an "old way of thinking," Kyodo said.
He arrived at the airport just outside of Tokyo from Mumbai, India, in transit to the United States, it said.
Liu is one of three people to have been awarded the prize while being jailed by their own government. The other two are Myanmar's Aung Sang Suu Kyi in 1991 and German pacifist Carl von Ossietzky in 1935.
The selection of Liu as this year's laureate enraged the Chinese government, which has called the dissident a "criminal" and slammed the award as a violation of Nobel ideals and a discredit to the Peace Prize.
Leaders around the world including US President Barack Obama -- last year's Nobel Peace Prize winner -- lauded the 2010 winner and called on the Chinese government to release him immediately.
China's censors have mounted an effort to prevent news of the award circulating on the Internet in China and searches on the subject remained blocked Monday.
Liu's wife Liu Xia said, via her Twitter account, that she had been placed under house arrest at her Beijing home both before and after travelling to the prison in northeastern China where her husband is being held to inform him of his prize.
(source:afp)
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