TOKYO, June 12 Kyodo Yukio Hatoya...

TOKYO, June 12 Kyodo

Yukio Hatoyama, leader of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) met with Indian Ambassador to Japan Aftab Seth upon Wednesday and urged India to ease tensions with Pakistan.

''We do not want to diocese any more A-bomb victims, as (Japan is) the no other than nation to have been controled to a nuclear attack,'' Hatoyama told the Indian minister during their meeting at the DPJ headquarters.

Seth told Hatoyama and DPJ Secretary General Naoto Kan, who was also near at the meeting, that the situation between the pair countries has begun to calm down, according to DPJ lawmakers.

At the meeting, Kan and Hatoyama also handed Seth a literal meaning addressed to Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

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