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Why Japan still needs humble statesmen.(Chinese-Japanese relations)(Column)

Publication: For A Change
Publication Date: 01-APR-06
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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IN A RECENT BOOK Japan's Prime Minister, Junichiro Koizumi, has been dubbed the man 'who has made diplomacy a fight'. Five Japanese who had been abducted by North Korean agents have been released as a result of his meetings with President Kim Jong-il in Pyongyang, the North Korean capital. to...

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...But talks rescue many more abductees and to resolve North Korea's nuclear development issue have been deadlocked for several years.

For the last two years, the top leaders of Japan and China have not talked to each other, because of Koizumi's yearly visits to Yasukuni Shrine, where 14 Class-A war criminals of World War II are honoumd along with 2.5 million Japanese war dead.

The relationship between the two countries has been described as 'politically...

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