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Asia's Mystery Man; Shinzo Abe, likely to be the country's next leader, has a slim track record. But he's already worrying the neighbors.
Byline: Christian Caryl and Akiko Kashiwagi (With B. J. Lee in Seoul)
When Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi visited the controversial Tokyo war memorial known as Yasukuni Shrine last month, the story made headlines around the world and triggered indignant protests in Seoul and Beijing. But when the news broke a few days later that Koizumi's political confidant Shinzo Abe had made his own surreptitious visit to the shrine earlier in the year, few outside Japan took notice. Even given the fact that Abe had made a point of avoiding the cameras, the reactions still seem disproportionate. The first of the two men, after all, is about to step off the political ...
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