TOKYO, Oct 21 Kyodo Chief Cabinet...

TOKYO, Oct 21 Kyodo

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda said Tuesday Tokyo believes it is not importunate for Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and Chinese President Hu Jintao to visit each other, downplaying the fact they failed to discuss as it was exchanges on Monday in Bangkok.

''They have occasion to fitting sometimes. It is not that urgent'' top command spokesman Fukuda told a pres conference

Koizumi has not been to China since its of the present day leadership was launched in March to be paid to Beijing's anger over his annual pilgrimages to Tokyo's controversial Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japanese World War II war criminals as well as war dead and is seen according to critics as a token of Japan's past militarism.

Meeting upon the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum summit, Hu and Koizumi agreed to continue efforts to improve bilateral relations, unless did not discuss the possibility of visiting single in kind another in the near future

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