新华网消息据美联社报道，日本众议院议长河野洋平今天同首相小泉纯一郎进行了会晤，敦促他不再参拜靖国神社。河野洋平警告说，如果小泉再次参拜，那将进一步损害同中国业已紧张的关系。
河野洋平上周同几位前首相开会，讨论小泉参拜靖国神社问题。这些前首相同他一样对这一问题表示关切，并同意敦促小泉停止参拜靖国神社。
美联社援引共同社的报道说，小泉对河野洋平的关切表示理解。他对河野洋平说，他曾经向中国和韩国领导人反复解释他参拜靖国神社的个人信念。
小泉说，“我解释了我的想法......许多次，我相信，我得到了他们的理解。”（米奇）W1685-r IBX W156507-0600361222 intjw bej seo tokBC-AS-GEN--Japan-WarShrine<JapaneseParliaments speaker urges Koizumi not to visitwar shrine<TOKYO(AP) _ A senior parliamentary official onTuesday urgedPrimeMinister Junichiro Koizumi to reconsider visitingacontroversialwar shrine, warning it could further damageJapansalready strainedrelations with China, officials and newsreportssaid.Yohei Kono,the speaker of Parliaments powerful lowerhouse,told Koizumi heshould ``use extremely careful judgmentwhenconsidering whetherto make a visit this year to theYasukuniShrine, Kyodo Newsreported.The Shrine honors Japans wardead, including executedwarcriminals from World War II. Koizumisannual visits to ithaveoutraged China and other Asian countriesthat sufferedduringJapans brutal invasion in the run-up to andduring World WarII.Koizumi reportedly told Kono that while heunderstoodtheconcerns, he had repeatedly explained his beliefsabout visitingtheshrine to Chinas and South Koreas leaders.``Ihave explainedabout my thoughts ... many times and I believeI havegained theirunderstanding, Kyodo quoted Koizumi as saying.Koizumihasrecently faced calls from within his own ruling partyto haltthevisits, which have exacerbated tensions between Japananditsneighbors. Some lawmakers have suggested removing fromtheshrinethe remains of the most high-profile war criminals.Shrineofficialsrecently rejected the idea.In a rare step, Kono lastweek organizeda meeting with severalformer prime ministers todiscuss Koizumisshrine visit. The formerleaders shared theirconcerns and agreed tourge Koizumi to stop hisvisits to theshrine.Yasukuni enshrines 2.5million war dead, including wartimePrimeMinister Hideki Tojo and13 other leaders convicted of themostserious war crimes at the1946-1948 international war tribunalinTokyo.Japan-China relationshave plunged in recent months amidrenewedcriticism that Japanrefuses to face up to wartimeatrocities, whichhas fueledopposition to Japans pursuit of apermanent seat on theU.N.Security Council.AP-TK-07-06-050811GMT<2005-06-0716:11:522005-06-07 16:12:102265
