Yasukuni should not be issue in LDP race: Koizumi

Yasukuni should not be issue in LDP race: Koizumi

ISTANBUL, Turkey - Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi arrives in Istanbul from Ankara on Jan. 11. He reporters traveling with him thatthe dispute over his visits to the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine should not be an issue in the Liberal Democratic Party presidential race in September. The topic is ''a matter of the heart,'' he said.

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