Friday, July 7, 2006 at 07:03 EDT

TOKYO — Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe said Thursday he has received a threatening letter from Hong Kong, with the sender's name appearing to be Chinese, warning he would be killed if he visited Tokyo's war-related Yasukuni Shrine.

"My actions and my thinking will, of course, not be affected by this kind of threat," said Abe, the favorite in opinion polls to succeed Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in September. The letter, addressed to Abe and delivered to the prime minister's official residence, included a box cutter, the government's top spokesman said.

© 2006 Kyodo News.

haha let's all send him some gifts, I'll mail him a box of girly underpants so he can sniff it.

What a crybaby! You want to know how many death threats bush gets? I bet alot! Abe needs to take some diplomacy classes to learn not to be such a drama queen. Why make such a big deal over nothing? He is doing more harm to this country than good. He is the next Japanese PM but with this behavior, who knows what his bs might bring in Japan's future.

he probably made it up himself.

lol... and from HK too LOL

Damn... someone beat me to it.

he only got one? i was expecting him to get like letters by the truckful from mainland china