Japan plans envoy in bid to mend ties
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December 23, 2012, Sunday
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JAPAN'S next Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plans to send senior ruling party member Masahiko Komura as an envoy to China as early as next month in a bid to repair ties between Asia's two largest economies, the Nikkei Business Daily said.
Abe, a hardliner who has questioned claims by China and others that Japan's army forced woman from occupied territories into prostitution during World War II, wants to bolster relations with his nation's biggest neighbour after anti-Japanese protests there this year, the paper reported, without saying where it obtained the information.
Komura will carry a letter from Abe for China's leaders, the Nikkei said. Komura is a former foreign minister who served as Abe's defense minister during his first administration in 2007. As head of the Japan-China Friendship Paliamentarians' Union, the lawmaker is known for his strong ties with China.
During campaigning for the general election that returned his Liberal Democratic Party to power after three years, Abe pledged to take a tough line with China in the dispute over Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea islands.
A Chinese boycott of Japanese cars, electronic gadgets and other products earlier this year, however, hurt Japanese companies, while violent anti-Japanese protests damaged some businesses.
Abe also plans to send an envoy to South Korea following the election of Park Geun-hye as president. Ties with South Korea have been strained over a separate territorial dispute.
Abe, a hardliner who has questioned claims by China and others that Japan's army forced woman from occupied territories into prostitution during World War II, wants to bolster relations with his nation's biggest neighbour after anti-Japanese protests there this year, the paper reported, without saying where it obtained the information.
Komura will carry a letter from Abe for China's leaders, the Nikkei said. Komura is a former foreign minister who served as Abe's defense minister during his first administration in 2007. As head of the Japan-China Friendship Paliamentarians' Union, the lawmaker is known for his strong ties with China.
During campaigning for the general election that returned his Liberal Democratic Party to power after three years, Abe pledged to take a tough line with China in the dispute over Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea islands.
A Chinese boycott of Japanese cars, electronic gadgets and other products earlier this year, however, hurt Japanese companies, while violent anti-Japanese protests damaged some businesses.
Abe also plans to send an envoy to South Korea following the election of Park Geun-hye as president. Ties with South Korea have been strained over a separate territorial dispute.
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