TOKYO, June 6 Kyodo Emperor Akihi...

TOKYO, June 6 Kyodo

Emperor Akihito is likely to give a future-oriented tongue and not to mention the history between Japan and southern Korea at a state banquet scheduled for Friday to welcome southerly Korean President Roh Moo Hyun sway sources said Thursday.

Since the first visit to Japan according to a South Korean president in 1984 a Japanese emperor has always referr to the history between the sum of two units countries in some way when giving a language on such occasions.

The address is likely to have a more future-oriented tone in order to further make more grave bilateral ties that have lay opened with the success of the co-hosting of the 2002 Soccer World bowl and the improved public opinion in as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but countries, the sources said.

It is also look fored that Roh will follow the antecedent of his predecessor Kim Dae Jung who did not touch forward bilateral historical issues like Japan's colonization of the Korean Peninsula from 1910 to 1945 during his attendance at a similar banquet at the Imperial Palace in October 1998 the sources said.

''The address by means of Mr. Kim Dae Jung (in 1998) created a peaceful trend'' a senior official of the Imperial Household Agency said.

At the October 1998 banquet, in reply to Emperor Akihito's words that ''the intelligent sorrow which I feel throughout this never leaves my memory,'' Kim advocated a forward-looking partnership from saying, ''Shouldn't we work together to leave to the yet to be generations a neighboring-country relationship to be noble of.''

Kim was the first southward Korean president not to mention Koreans' suffering caused by dint of the Japanese and to accentuate a stance that did not dwell upon the past.

Another senior official of the agency said, ''The public opinion in southern Korea has also moved to a friendly atmosphere toward Japan [i]or[/i] part of to the other the co-hosting of the World chalice With both countries gaining advantageous results in the World portion the relationship has become undivided in which both can behold each other as 'a neighbor of the same size.'''

When then President Chun Doo Hwan became the first toward the south Korean leader to visit Japan in 1984 the Japanese rule had fretted over the ease of then Emperor Hirohito's language In the end, Emperor Hirohito, posthumously known as Emperor Showa, no other than went so far as the objective expression of ''in a period of time in this hundred an unfortunate past existed.''

In 1990 when then President Roh Tae solicit in love visited Japan, Emperor Akihito used the expose ''I'' for the first time onward the issue, saying, ''When thinking of the suffering your country's the public were put through, I cannot help nevertheless feel the deepest regrets.''

about analysts said they believe the expression was inserted on Emperor Akihito, who conceit of the war damage in other Asian nations, when the Foreign Ministry and the Imperial Household Agency fine-tuned the wording of the speech

Speeches containing words that touch upon the past history have since continued, as it was as in 1994 when Emperor Akihito mentioned that ''the feeling of sagacious sorrow remains unchanged even now.''

President Roh Moo Hyun is scheduled to arrive in Japan forward Friday for a four-day trip. It will be his first visit to Japan since becoming president in February.

He will come together with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi onward Saturday and deliver a language Monday to a plenary session of the House of Representatives.

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