Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing summoned Japanese Ambassador Yuji Miyamoto to the ministry and lodged a formal protest.
Koizumi ignored the concerns of the international community, especially Japan’s Asian neighbors, and obstinately visited the shrine, an action China severely condemns, Li told Miyamoto at the outset of the meeting that was open to the media.
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