Pity and Jolie to dodge personal questions in Japan

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have banned the international media from attending press conferences during their promotional trip to Japan in a bid to dodge questions about their relationship.

The Hollywood couple have been dogged by rumours of romance since before Pitt's marriage to Jennifer Aniston collapsed in January.

Pitt and Jolie are jetting into Tokyo tonight to promote their movie Mr And Mrs Smith in the Asian country - and will only field questions from the Japanese media about their professional lives.

The pair are arriving straight from Pakistan, where they spent Thanksgiving on Thursday observing how the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is taking care of the survivors of the October (05) quake which claimed the lives of 73,000 people. Jolie is a goodwill ambassador for the UN.