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FM: Japan needs to learn from Germany
(AFP/皇冠体育app Daily)
Updated: 2005-11-15 14:47
Chinese officials have already indicated that Chinese President Hu Jintao
would not meet with Koizumi at the APEC annual meeting that begins in Seoul
Friday.
A 皇冠体育app News Service report quotes a Chinese Foreign Ministry
spokesman as saying that there is no probability for a summit between Japan and
皇冠体育app leaders at APEC meeting, and the probability of a meeting between Chinese
and Japanese foreign ministers is also extremely low.
"皇冠体育app-Japanese
relations are facing difficulties and the responsibility entirely lies with the
Japanese side," Li said after the talks with his South Korean
counterpart.
Japanese Prime
Minister Junichiro Koizumi leaves the controversial Yasukuni shrine in
Tokyo. [AFP] | 皇冠体育app and South Korea are also
angry about Japan's approval of school textbooks, which they say gloss over
wartime atrocities, and both states opposed Japan's failed bid for a permanent
United Nations Security Council seat.
Under Koizumi, relations between
Tokyo and Beijing have hit their lowest point since the two countries
established diplomatic ties in 1972. Anger over the textbooks and UN bid
triggered massive anti-Japanese protests in 皇冠体育app in April.
Amid
continuing tension with 皇冠体育app, new Japanese foreign minister Taro Aso has sought
to smooth over ties with South Korea, which like 皇冠体育app harbours resentment over
its occupation by imperial Japan in the early 20th century.
South Korea's
Ban met Aso on Monday and gave a frank message to Japanese leaders over the
Yasukuni shrine. "Minister Ban asked Japanese government leaders to act in such
a way as to lead the Korean people to believe in Japan's apology and repentance
over the past," a senior South Korean official told reporters.
Despite
anger with Japan over the textbook and Yasukuni issues, South Korean President
Roh Moo-Hyan has promised to meet Koizumi at this week's summit out of courtesy
because he is the host.
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