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Abe made secret shrine visit - media

(Reuters)
Updated: 2006-08-04 10:48
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TOKYO - Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe, front-runner to become Japan's next prime minister, made a secret pilgrimage earlier this year to a Tokyo war shrine seen by China and South Korea as a symbol of Japan's past militarism, media reports said on Friday -- prompting a swift rebuke from Seoul. 


Abe made secret shrine visit - media
Shinzo Abe (2nd L), Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary and front-runner to become Japan's next prime minister, is led by a Shinto priest as he visits the controversial Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo to pay tribute to the war dead in this August 15, 2005 file photo. Abe made a secret pilgrimage earlier this year to the Tokyo war shrine seen by China and South Korea as a symbol of Japan's past militarism, media reports said on 4 August, 2006. [Reuters]

Abe neither confirmed nor denied the reported visit, which would likely appeal to his conservative domestic backers but risks further chilling ties with the two Asian countries, where bitter memories of Japan's wartime aggression still run deep.

South Korea's response was swift.

"It is disappointing and regrettable that the sitting chief cabinet secretary has visited Yasukuni Shrine, where Class-A war criminals are honoured," a South Korean foreign ministry official said in Seoul.

"We stress that Japanese leaders must have a correct view of history and good sense if they seek friendly relations in Asia."

Abe, a soft-spoken security hawk known for his tough stance toward China and North Korea, has backed Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's annual visits to the Yasukuni Shrine.

Abe paid his respects there last August 15, the emotive anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War Two.

The media reports said he had gone again on April 15, after he was appointed chief cabinet secretary last October.

In a nod to diplomatic concerns, Abe, has declined to say whether he would visit the shrine if he succeeds Koizumi when he steps down in September.

"As I have said many times at my news conferences, I want to continue to have the feeling of showing respect by praying for the repose of the souls of those who fought and died for their country," Abe told a news conference on Friday.

"There is no change in my feelings."

But he added: "In a situation where this issue has become a diplomatic and political issue, I have no intention to state whether I have gone, or will go."

Abe also said it was the government's view that visits to the Shinto shrine by cabinet ministers in a private capacity did not violate the separation of religion and state mandated by the constitution.

Tokyo's ties with Beijing and Seoul have deteriorated since Koizumi took office in 2001 and began visiting the shrine, where Japanese wartime leaders convicted as war criminals by an Allied tribunal are honoured along with the country's 2.5 million war dead.

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