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P. S. Suryanarayana
SINGAPORE: China has expressed deep dissatisfaction over the perceived Japanese attitude towards bilateral relations, even as Chinese Vice-Premier Wu Yi cut short her visit to Japan. Ms. Wu Yi, who is now in Mongolia on a scheduled visit, had arrived in Japan exactly a week ago and left the country on Monday. According to the Japanese side, she was to have gone on to Mongolia from Japan but she cancelled a planned meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Monday and left ahead of schedule. Commenting on the episode, which has added another twist to the troubled relations between the two countries in recent weeks, the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan said in Beijing that "China is extremely unsatisfied" with the stand of the Japanese leaders on the Yasukuni Shrine issue as expressed by them during Ms. Wu Yi's visit to Japan. The shrine in Tokyo, which honours Japan's war-time heroes including those convicted by the relevant international authorities for heinous war crimes, is widely regarded across Asia as a symbol of imperial Japan's militarism. Frequent visits to the shrine by Japanese leaders, including Mr. Koizumi, are viewed in China and the two Koreas as a possible sign of Japan's suspected wish to lurch back to such militarism. "To our regret, during Vice-Premier Wu Yi's stay in Japan, Japanese leaders repeatedly made remarks on [their agenda of] visiting the Yasukuni Shrine that go against the efforts to improve Sino-Japanese relations," Mr. Kong said. He emphasised that her visit, to participate in the China Day celebrations at the Aichi Expo 2005, "is the best demonstration" of the importance that Beijing attached to its ties with Tokyo." Mr. Kong said: "China sincerely hopes that the two countries could make joint efforts to fulfil Chinese President Hu Jintao's five-point proposal on improving China-Japan relations." Mr. Hu made the proposal during his talks with Mr. Koizumi in Jakarta, on the sidelines of the recent Asia-Africa summit there.
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