呉儀ドタキャン騒動 英字紙報道もろもろ

Beijing has long objected to Koizumi's annual visits to the Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japan's 2.5 million war dead - including convicted war criminals who ordered Tokyo's brutal invasion of other Asian countries in the first half of the 20th century.
Many Chinese believe Japan has never truly shown remorse for offenses committed during its invasion of China, including germ warfare experiments and sex slavery of thousands of women, and Koizumi's visits further aggravate that resentment.