The Rides and Tours

外国のメディアは靖国神社をどう表現しているのだろうか、調べてみました。

• South Korea's Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon has arrived in Japan seeking to mend ties strained by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's controversial visits to a Tokyo war shrine. ABC Radio Australia
• Professional diplomats don’t usually say much in public.
  That’s why eyebrows arched upwards all across Asia in response to the frank public admission by Japan’s foreign minister about his prime minister’s visit to the war-related Yasukuni Shrine. The Korea Times
• Last week, after the fifth visit by Japan's prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi, to a controversial war memorial in Japan, Seoul reacted with outrage. JoongAng Daily (Korea)
• WASHINGTON-An influential U.S. congressman has voiced concerns about Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visits to war-related Yasukuni Shrine and their negative effects on Japan's relations with its neighbors. (IHT/Asahi) asahi.com
• When commenting on Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's plea on his current visit to the Yasukuni Shrine, Kong said the responsibility for the current difficult relations between China and Japan does not lie in China. People's Daily Online (China)
• TOKYO (Reuters) - South Korea's foreign minister told Japan bluntly on Thursday that the two countries must look to the future in developing ties amidst a row over a visit by Japan's prime minister to a controversial Shinto war shrine. Malaysia Star
• Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon arrived in Tokyo late Thursday and met with his counterpart Nobutaka Machimura amid a diplomatic row over Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit to a controversial war shrine earlier this month. Seattle Post Intelligencer
• SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Xinhuanet) -- South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon headed Thursday for Tokyo for a three-day visit there to amend the relations with the neighboring country following Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit to a controversial Tokyo shrine last week. XINHUA Online (China)
• TOKYO — South Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Ban Ki Moon harshly criticized Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's recent visit to the war-related Yasukuni Shrine in a meeting with Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura in Tokyo on Thursday. Japan Today(共同通信社配信）
• Oct. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Japan asked South Korea yesterday for two meetings between the countries' leaders amid heightened tensions between the countries after the Japanese prime minister's visit to a shrine that has memorials to war criminals. Bloomberg.com
• South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon has criticised a recent visit by Japan's prime minister to the controversial Yasukuni war shrine. BBC NEWS
• TOKYO, Oct. 24 (Reuters) - South Korea's foreign minister, who last week canceled a planned trip to Japan over the visit to a Tokyo shrine for war dead by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi of Japan, will visit this week after all, the Japanese Foreign Ministry said Monday. The New York Times
• The prime minister's Oct. 17 trip to the Shinto shrine, where Japanese war dead are buried, infuriated China and South Korea. North Korea Times
• TOKYO, (AFP) - Japan said that South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon will go ahead with a visit to Tokyo this week, despite diplomatic friction over Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visits to a war shrine. AFP (via Yahoo! News)

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