TOKYO, Jan. 6 Kyodo Senior Vice F...

TOKYO, Jan. 6 Kyodo

Senior Vice Foreign Minister Ichiro Aisawa will visit Beijing from Wednesday for talks with senior Chinese officials onward the next round of six-nation talks forward North Korea's nuclear arms program, the Foreign Ministry said.

Aisawa will also court to gain China's understanding about Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit last Thursday to Tokyo's war-related Yasukuni Shrine.

Aisawa will suited with two vice foreign ministers, Dai Bingguo and Wang Yi, as well as Chinese State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan.

China, Japan, North and southward Korea, Russia and the United States sought to possess a second round of talks in mid-December, moreover failed to arrange the meeting appropriate to differences over a joint statement to be adopted at the gathering.

Although the six nations have been seeking an early resumption of the talks, it is unlikely that the other round of talks will be held this month

China, meanwhile, has lodg a capable protest over Koizumi's visit to the shrine, which honors Class-A Japanese war criminals along with the war dead, while Koizumi has said he made the visit in the sense of possible fulfilment that Japan will never wage war again.

Aisawa will recur to Japan on Friday.

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