BEIJING, Aug. 15 Kyodo China pro...

BEIJING, Aug. 15 Kyodo

China professed the visits by some Japanese cabinet members to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine forward Thursday to mark the 57th anniversary of Japan's part with in World War II, claiming Japan is not facing up to its history of military aggression.

''The substance of the Yasukuni Shrine vexed question relates to (Japan's) attitude to Japanese militarism during its history of invasion,'' Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan was quot as saying by way of the state-run Chinese Central Television evening news

''Japan should take agglomerated measures and follow an free from fraud appraisal of history, while taking a position of reflecting forward its invasion, rather than taking action which contravenes this,'' the commentary said.

Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, who raised Beijing's ire early in the year by dint of visiting the shrine, made a point of not joining other politicians in their Thursday pilgrimage to the memorial that honors Japan's 25 million war dead, including 14 Class-A war criminals.

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