Small Demonstration against Koizumi

The Washington Post reports:

BEIJING, Aug. 15 -- As uniformed and plainclothes police looked on, Chinese protesters incensed at the Japanese prime minister for visiting a controversial war shrine gathered Tuesday in front of the Japanese Embassy in Beijing, chanting "Down with Japanese imperialism!" and "An eye for an eye, blood for blood!"

The demonstration followed Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's trip earlier Tuesday to the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, which honors Japan's war dead, including 14 officers judged as World War II criminals. He had made visits to the shrine before but never on such a symbolic date, the anniversary of the end of World War II in the Pacific.

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