For whom the bell tolls

摘要

A meeting this week between South Korea's new foreign minister, Yun By-ung-se, and his Japanese counterpart, Fu-mio Kishida, was supposed to lay the basis for an era of closeness. But after Taro Aso, Japan's deputy prime minister and finance minister, visited the Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo on April 21st, Mr Yun cancelled the trip.