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小泉首相が靖国参拝
小泉純一郎首相は17日、靖国神社を参拝した。
Koizumi visits Yasukuni Shrine
Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi went Oct. 17 to Yasukuni Shrine, the contentious Shinto site that honors the nation's war dead and 14 Class-A war criminals.
It was Koizumi's fifth visit as prime minister and came on the first day of the four-day Reitaisai, the shrine's most important biannual religious ceremony, which is held in spring and autumn.
It also came hot on the heels of the Diet's approval Oct. 14 of the postal privatization bills.
Koizumi has kept his pledge to visit the shrine at least once a year since taking office in April 2001.
This is despite repeated protests from China and South Korea, which regard the shrine as a symbol of Japan's Shinto-inspired militarism through the 1930s and 1940s.
Chinese and South Korean governments issued severe protests Oct. 17, and talks were canceled between Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura and his Chinese counterpart Li Zhaoxing in Beijing.
A telephone survey Oct. 17 and 18 by Kyodo News found 48.1 percent of respondents in support of Koizumi's action, while 45.8 percent expressed opposition
(The Japan Times)
Shukan ST: Oct. 28, 2005
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- contentious
- 議論の的になっている
- honors 〜
- 〜を祭る
- war dead
- 戦没者
- Class-A war criminals
- A級戦犯
- biannual
- 半年に1度の
- religious ceremony
- 宗教行事
- hot on the heels of 〜
- 〜のすぐあとに
- Diet's approval
- 国会での承認
- postal privatization bills
- 郵政民営化法案
- pledge
- 公約
- since taking office
- 就任以来
- repeated protests
- 度重なる抗議
- regard 〜 as 〜
- 〜を〜と見なす
- 〜 -inspired
- 〜に影響を受けた
- militarism
- 軍国主義
- issued severe protests
- 激しい抗議をした
- counterpart
- 相手国の外相
- Li Zhaoxing
- 李肇星
- in support of 〜
- 〜に賛成して
- expressed opposition
- 反対した