Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wang Yi voiced displeasure Wednesday over remarks made by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi about the controversial Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo.
During a Lower House Budget Committee meeting on Tuesday, Koizumi said that while the shrine honors Class-A war criminals, this would not stop him from paying visits there.
Wang arrived in Tokyo the same day.
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