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Chinese men wearing t-shirts with the words "Protest Visit Shrine" and holding a Chinese flag protest quietly in front of the Japanese embassy in Beijing, China, Friday, Jan 2, 2004. Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi started the new year by visiting a shrine honoring Japan's war dead Thursday _ a decision that brought a swift rebuke from China and South Korea and could provoke an outcry over Tokyo's largest planned deployment of troops abroad since World War II.
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