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英フィナンシャル・タイムズ紙（5月8日付電子版・アジア-太平洋版）は、安倍首相が春季例大祭（4月21−23日）に合わせて供物を奉納したことについて、「安倍首相は、一方で中国や韓国との政治的関係を維持しながら、仲間の国家主義者が重視する施設（＝靖国神社）に明確に栄誉をあたえようとした」と、その態度の欺瞞性を指摘した。
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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/44656f0e-fd85-11db-8d62-000b5df10621.html
Abe plants seeds of Yasukuni compromise
By Michiyo Nakamoto in Tokyo, Mure Dickie in Beijing and Song Jung-a in Seoul
Published: May 8 2007 20:08 | Last updated: May 8 2007 20:08
Shinzo Abe, the Japanese prime minister, gave an expensive potted plant to the Yasukuni shrine last month in an apparent attempt to honour an institution dear to fellow nationalists, while preserving political ties with China and South Korea.
Seoul on Tuesday criticised Mr Abe’s highly symbolic offering to the shrine – which honours Japan’s war dead, including convicted war criminals – but Beijing’s initial reaction was mild, suggesting the prime minister might have found a compromise approach to an issue that has bedevilled ties between East Asia’s preeminent powers.
Prime ministerial visits to the shrine had become one of the biggest stumbling blocks to relations with Beijing. China froze top-level exchanges with Tokyo for years over repeated visits by Mr Abe’s predecessor to Yasukuni.
Mr Abe has not visited the shrine since becoming prime minister last year but, in late April, he made an offering of a Y50,000 ($417, €308, £209) potted masakaki tree to the shrine.
“The Yasukuni shrine issue is an important and sensitive political issue in China-Japan relations,” the Chinese foreign ministry, said. China hoped Japan would “strictly abide by the consensus” reached last year on removing obstacles to ties and promoting co-operation, it said.
While the comments might not prove to be Beijing’s final word, they were very mild by the standards of Chinese public diplomacy and strongly suggest that Mr Abe’s offering will not be treated as a provocation on the same level as a prime ministerial visit to the shrine.
South Korea, which like China suffered a brutal occupation by imperial Japanese forces in the first half of the 20th century, was more direct in its response to Mr Abe’s move.
“It is very regrettable that Japanese Prime Minister Abe sent an offering in April to Yasukuni shrine, which glorifies the past war of aggression and honours war criminals,” Seoul’s foreign ministry said.
Tokyo was on Tuesday at pains to play down the political significance of Mr Abe’s gift of the masakaki, a tree traditionally used in rituals celebrated by Japan’s Shinto religion, even though the plant carried a plate identifying the donor as “Prime Minister Shinzo Abe”.
“This is a matter that concerns the thoughts and faith of the prime minister as a private individual, so we would like to refrain from commenting,” Yasuhisa Shiozaki, chief cabinet secretary said.
The gift will resonate strongly with Japanese nationalists, some of whom have criticised Mr Abe for not visiting Yasukuni since he took office last year and over his friendly stance towards Beijing.
“This is a very meaningful move, which is a compromise but one that allows him to diffuse (the pressure from nationalists),” says Takao Toshikawa, editor of Inside Line, a political newsletter.
The last prime minister to offer a masakaki to Yasukuni was Yasuhiro Nakasone in 1985.
Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2007
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