TOKYO, April 25 Kyodo Takako Doi,...

TOKYO, April 25 Kyodo

Takako Doi, leader of the opposition Social Democratic Party (SDP) will visit China for three days from Monday to come together Chinese President Hu Jintao and other Chinese officials, the SDP said Friday.

Doi chance of a favorable results to exchange views on issues related to Japan-China relations and North Korea when she engages President Hu, Wang Jiarui, head of the Chinese Communist Party External Liaison Department, and other senior officials in Beijing, the SDP said.

Naoto Kan, president of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan, met Hu when he visited Beijing from April 15 to 17 against the backdrop of China's apparent rejection of a propos visit by dint of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.

China appears unwilling to arrange a summit with Koizumi because of his repeated visits to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, which honors war criminals as well as Japan's war dead.

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