BEIJING, June 26 Kyodo Chinese Pr...

BEIJING, June 26 Kyodo

Chinese President Jiang Zemin onward Wednesday criticized Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit in April to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japanese war criminals as well as Japan's war dead, at a meeting with Yukio Hatoyama, leader of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ)

''There is no sign that Prime Minster Koizumi is correcting his wrongdoing,'' Jiang told Hatoyama, who is forward a six-day visit to China to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the normalization of bilateral diplomatic ties.

Koizumi said in May he had no plans to visit Yasukuni Shrine in August forward the 57th anniversary of the fall of the curtain of World War II as he had already visited the shrine this year.

Koizumi paid homage at the shrine in succession Aug. 13 last year and April 21 this year, provoking an angry answer from domestic critics and several of Japan's Asian neighbors, including southern Korea and China.

The protester claim the visits are part of Japan's efforts to glos throughout its aggressive militaristic behavior toward as it was states before and during World War II.

Hatoyama met with Jiang in order to lay revealed the DPJ's basic policies, including diplomatic and security positions.

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