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President offers Japan a way to ease tensions
(Reuters)
Updated: 2006-03-31 21:04
The Foreign Ministry also summoned the Japanese ambassador to China, the
official Xinhua news agency said.
In South Korea, about 60 members of the Korean Federation of Teachers'
Association rallied near the Japanese embassy.
"You can try to distort history textbooks, but you can't change history," the
protesters chanted.
Seoul disputes Tokyo's claim to a set of islands known in Korea as Tokto and
in Japan as Takeshima.
A similar row over a Japanese history book, which critics said whitewashed
wartime atrocities, sparked protests across China last April when thousands
stoned Japanese government buildings and businesses.
A senior Japanese consular official based in China said relations between
Beijing and Tokyo had yet to recover.
Last May, Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi abruptly cancelled a meeting with
Koizumi and returned home. Chinese officials later made clear it was a reaction
to the Japanese leader's refusal to end visits to the war
shrine.
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