Japanese Business Leader Urges Tokyo to Improve Ties With China
Posted on: Thursday, 5 January 2006, 09:00 CST
Text of report in English by Japanese news agency Kyodo
Tokyo, 5 January: A Japanese business leader on Thursday [5 January] called on the government to review its Asian diplomacy, given the strained relations between Japan and China resulting from Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visits to the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine.
"If possible, I would like to see a change" in Japan's diplomacy with its Asian neighbours, Hiroshi Okuda, chairman of the Japan Business Federation, said at his New Year press conference.
If bilateral disputes over the shrine visits and China's gas and oil exploration rights in the East China Sea drag on, they will have a "grave impact" on relations between the two countries, Okuda said.
Despite antagonism in the political field, Japan and China maintain favourable economic relations, the Toyota Motor Corp chairman added.
The federation is Japan's most influential business lobby, known as Nippon Keidanren.
Source: BBC Monitoring Asia Pacific
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