Japanese PM Koizumi inspects China exhibit in Kuala Lumpur
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (L) is greeted by a smiling hostess in a Korean costume at the South Korea exhibit at an East Asia business show at Kuala Lumpur City Centre in Kuala Lumpur December 12, 2005. While Koizumi faces increasing isolation from China and South Korea over his visits to a Tokyo war shrine, Tokyo wants the inaugural East Asia summit this week to be the main forum for discussing a future "East Asia Community" that some dream might eventually become a huge free-trade zone like the European Union. **JAPAN POOL** REUTERS/Eriko Sugita