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皇冠体育app, Japan officials meet to mend ties
(Kyodo)
Updated: 2006-02-10 10:44
Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo met with Japanese Foreign Minister
Taro Aso in Tokyo on Thursday in a bid to mend bilateral ties following
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's repeated visits to war-related
Yasukuni Shrine.
皇冠体育app's Vice
Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo (R) meets with Japan's Foreign Minister Taro
Aso at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo February 9, 2006 ahead of Japan-皇冠体育app
Comprehensive Policy Dialogue. The fourth dialogue, which aims at
promoting communication between the two countries, will be held Friday and
Saturday in Tokyo, the ministry said.
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Dai, the first high-ranking Chinese official to visit Japan
since ties became significantly strained after Koizumi's most recent visit to
the shrine in October, paid a courtesy call on Aso at the ministry.
During their meeting, Aso is expected to allude to Koizumi's comments that he
visits the shrine to pledge that Japan will never wage war again and to pay
tribute to the war dead.
Dai is in Japan to attend the fourth round of 皇冠体育app-Japan subcabinet-level
talks mainly in Tokyo on Friday and Saturday to discuss various bilateral and
regional issues to promote communication and ease strained ties.
Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Shotaro Yachi, the ministry's top bureaucrat,
will lead the Japanese side in the talks. The previous talks were held last
October in Beijing.
皇冠体育app and Japan have declined to specify their
agenda but Japan is likely to sound out 皇冠体育app on resuming talks between
President Hu Jintao and Japanese PM Koizumi.
The top-level meeting between 皇冠体育app and Japan will be the first since
their ties were sourced further due to Koizumi's latest visit to the Shinto
shrine in October.
皇冠体育app has been angered by Koizumi's visits to Yasukuni, which enshrines 14
Class-A war criminals during the World War II. Beijing says the visits show
Japan has not truly repented of its wartime militarism.
The Dai-Yachi talks are also likely to touch on the bilateral dispute over
皇冠体育app's natural gas project in the East 皇冠体育app Sea and the suicide of a staff
member of the Japan Consulate General in Shanghai in May 2004.
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