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Coventina

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Wed Apr-29-09 10:13 AM
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Japanese PM in Beijing for visit

Source: BBC

Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso has arrived in Beijing for a visit expected to focus primarily on the economy.

Japan and China, the world's second and third-biggest economies respectively, are hoping to work together to combat the global downturn.

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Last week Mr Aso sent an offering to the controversial Yasukuni shrine, which Beijing sees as a symbol of Japan's past militarism.

China said in a statement that it expressed "serious concern and dissatisfaction" for the shrine offering.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8024056.stm

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Wed Apr-29-09 10:19 AM
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1. Yasukuni Shrine

The Yasukuni Shrine issue is one that won't seem to go away. I can appreciate the Japanese people's desire to freely commemorate their own history, but the feelings of the Chinese, Koreans, etc. are also understandable. It might help if a Japanese PM counterposed an offering at the Yasukuni Shrine with a visit to, say, the memorial to the victims of the Nanjing Massacre in China.

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