{"id":5566,"date":"2005-12-11T16:03:19","date_gmt":"2005-12-11T23:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2005\/12\/11\/koizumi-downplays-tension-with-china-and-south-korea-as-he-leaves-for-asean-summit-mainichi-daily-news\/"},"modified":"2005-12-11T16:03:19","modified_gmt":"2005-12-11T23:03:19","slug":"koizumi-downplays-tension-with-china-and-south-korea-as-he-leaves-for-asean-summit-mainichi-daily-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2005\/12\/koizumi-downplays-tension-with-china-and-south-korea-as-he-leaves-for-asean-summit-mainichi-daily-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Koizumi downplays tension with China and South Korea as he leaves for ASEAN summit – Mainichi Daily News"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Mainichi Daily News:<\/a><\/p>\n

Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi dismissed as “temporary” deteriorating ties with China and South Korea as he left Sunday for an Asian summit and a maelstrom of anti-Japanese sentiment among Japan’s most important neighbors.<\/p>\n

At the meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Koizumi is also expected to finalize a free-trade pact with host Malaysia and reportedly set up a US$100 million fund to help Southeast Asia fight bird flu and terrorism. But tensions between Japan and Beijing and Seoul will figure high on the agenda.<\/p>\n

Although both countries remain important trade partners with Japan — China surpassed the United States last year as Japan’s biggest — relations have taken a beating by Koizumi’s repeated visits to a Tokyo war shrine<\/a> that critics say glorifies the country’s militaristic past, including its 1910-45 colonial rule of the Korean peninsula and its 1937 invasion of China.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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