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Japanese Lawmakers Visit Controversial Tokyo War Shrine

One hundred sixty lawmakers in Japan prayed in Yasukuni Shrine, which is considered to be a hypersensitive location in Sino-Japan relations. Japan’s Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda was not among the visitors. Thus, the bottom has not been reached yet. Still, there is a question of how China’s leaders will respond, since it happened right before President Hu Jintao’s visit to Japan.