Japan’s Abe to Suspend Shrine Visits
From Yonhap:
 Japan’s new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is believed to have promised China not to visit a controversial war shine “for the time being,” ahead of his planned summit meetings with China and South Korea, diplomatic sources said Friday.
Abe, who aims to improve ties with the Asian neighbors, will meet China’s President Hu Jintao on Sunday in Beijing and South Korea’s President Roh Moo-hyun on Monday in Seoul, the Japanese government confirmed on Wednesday.
Before accepting the scheduled summit, China demanded Japan’s Abe to promise not to visit the Yasukuni shrine that glorifies Japan’s war criminals before and during World War II, the sources said. The Japanese government responded somewhat positively, saying Abe won’t pray at the shrine for the time being, they said.
Right now Korean politicians are thinking, “Oh Sh__!, We can’t play up the shrine issue anymore to get people worked up against the Japanese and to overlook our own governmental failures. Well there is still the Dokdo issue we can play up. Dokdo is Korea!”
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