Yasukuni still a thorn in relations
By Sun Shangwu | China Daily | Updated: 2007-01-18 06:50
Members of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling party yesterday vowed to continue visiting the Yasukuni Shrine, widely seen by the country's Asian neighbors as glorifying Japan's militaristic past.
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Japanese visitors pay their respects at a monument to Sino-Japanese friendship in Hangzhou, capital of East China's Zhejiang Province. The inscription on the monument reads: "No more war between China and Japan." Newsphoto |
The announcement, made on the party's website, came just two days after Premier Wen Jiabao met his Japanese counterpart Abe in the Philippines, a meeting at which Wen accepted an invitation to visit Japan.
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