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Japan's foreign minister arrived Tuesday in Spain, the first venue in a European tour that will also include a stop in France that he is expected to use to press Tokyo's case in its spat with China. Fumio Kishida's trip comes as Japan is locked in an increasingly bitter row with China, with Beijing accusing nationalist Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of whitewashing his country's empire-building past with a visit to a controversial spot that honours convicted war criminals. Abe's pilgrimage to Yasukuni Shrine on December 26 came after more than a year of high tensions over the sovereignty of disputed islands in the East China Sea, which has left some observers warning of the danger of an armed clash in the area.
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