http://www.chinadaily.cn/english/doc...ent_444911.htm

Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi has cancelled a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi that had been billed as a way for the two nations to help resolve tensions between them.

But Tokyo Television, quoting government sources, said Wu wanted to avoid discussions of Koizumi's visits to the Yasukuni shrine, a sanctuary to war dead in Tokyo.

The shrine is dedicated to 2.5 million Japanese who died in the country's wars, including 14 top war criminals from World War II.

Koizumi has visited the shrine every year since taking office in 2001, with the last visit on January 1, 2004. His visits have angered China and South Korea, which suffered bloody occupations by Japan last century.

Last week, however, Koizumi indicated he would pay another visit to the shrine.

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