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Police take 7 Chinese activists from Senkakus to Okinawa
Thursday, March 25, 2004 at 09:40 JST
NAHA — Police on Thursday took seven Chinese activists to Okinawa for investigations into their landing the previous day on the main island of the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea.
A Japan Coast Guard patrol ship carrying the seven and police officers arrived on Okinawa's main island at around 9:30 a.m. They were arrested Wednesday afternoon on suspicion of entering Japanese territory illegally on Uotsurijima Island and violating the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Law.
The 3.8-square-kilometer island is located just over 400 km west of the Okinawa capital of Naha. The uninhabited islands, which are surrounded by waters with rich fishing resources, fall under Okinawa Prefecture's jurisdiction.
While questioning how and why they landed on the island and what they were doing during their stay there for about 10 hours, the local police plan to consult with the National Police Agency on whether they will send the case to public prosecutors or transfer the detainees to immigration officers, the police said.
"We will thoroughly investigate the case," Kuniyoshi Niioka, chief of the Okinawa police's security division, told reporters late Wednesday night, ruling out an early transfer of the case to immigration authorities.
But the police and Japanese immigration authorities are expected to expel them from the country within 60 days of the investigation.
This is the first time Japanese police have arrested Chinese nationals for landing on the disputed islands, claimed by Japan, China and Taiwan and known as Diaoyu in China and Tiaoyutai in Taiwan.
The flag-waving activists landed on Uotsurishima around 7:20 a.m. Wednesday in two small boats after sailing off from a 100-ton ship, according to Japanese officials. The ship reportedly departed from a port in China's Zhejiang Province early Tuesday.
The landing prompted Japan to lodge an official protest with China, while Beijing expressed both concern and criticism over the arrests. But both countries have expressed hope that the incident will not harm bilateral relations.
Before the landing, Tong Zeng, head of the China Federation for Defending the Diaoyu Islands, said they are planning to leave the island after completing their "mission" of setting foot on it.
The group planted a Chinese national flag on the island, Tong said, adding they also conducted some environmental and sightseeing studies there.
Japan claimed the islands as official Japanese territory in 1895. They came under U.S. control after World War II but were returned to Japan in 1972 when the United States returned Okinawa.
In Washington, State Department deputy spokesman Adam Ereli told reporters Wednesday, "The U.S. does not take a position on the question of the ultimate sovereignty of the Senkaku-Diaoyu Islands. This has been our long-standing view."
A dispute over the islands between Japan, Taiwan and China has been brewing ever since a United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East report suggested in 1968 that there are oil deposits under the East China Sea.
In 1992, China passed a territorial sea law which included the islands as Chinese territory.
The seven are the first group of such activists to land on the main island of the Senkaku Islands since October 1996.
It was the fourth time Chinese activists had set out for the islands in the past nine months. They failed in their previous three attempts to land.
The territorial dispute over the islands between Japan, China and Taiwan intensified after a Japanese right-wing group based in Tokyo set up a lighthouse on one of the islands.
To protest over the Chinese landing, a the right-wing group said Wednesday 15 of its members are planning to land on the same island after leaving Okinawa's Ishigaki on Thursday evening.
Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi defended the arrests of the activists, saying, "It was handled strictly in accordance with the law."
But in trying to allay concerns that the arrests will not have a negative impact on Japan-China relations, Koizumi also told reporters in the evening, "It is necessary for both parties to handle the case in as calm a manner as possible."
Chinese Ambassador to Japan Wu Dawei voiced opposition to the arrests when he met with Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Yukio Takeuchi for the second time at the Foreign Ministry on Wednesday night, ministry officials said.
Takeuchi summoned Wu to the ministry to protest about the landing.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry in Beijing asked Japanese authorities to give "sober treatment" to the activists and not harm them in any way, a ministry spokesperson said.
To protest over the Chinese landing, a Tokyo-based right-wing group said Wednesday 15 of its members are planning to land on the same 3.8-square-km island after leaving Okinawa's Ishigaki on Thursday evening. (Kyodo News)
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RapaNuiss (Mar 25 2004 - 08:07)
Keep hold onto the islands as tight as he can. Don't worry, China will never become a "Superpower" it's trying so hard to be. China will eventually find out how overheated their economy has been, and it will sunk just like many other Latin nations in Southern America.
kayjay
Jay-Z (Mar 25 2004 - 08:16)
Look maan, as long as I can remember China has been fussin over something or anything with not just neighboring Asian countries but rest of the world including TIBET.
jiga
kayjay (Mar 25 2004 - 08:24)
i agree. i aint never said one country was better than the other. my whole thing if aint about these island dude, it's something else. you feel what i'm saying cuz.
kayjay
Jay-Z (Mar 25 2004 - 08:36)
Ai, I c what ya sain and ya flava, no doubt about that man.
hova
geah, please beweeve it...
kayjay (Mar 25 2004 - 08:49)
hahahaha.
kyodo communists
hiizurukuni (Mar 25 2004 - 09:00)
" Chinese activists land on disputed Senkakus; Japan right-wingers on way "
Just who are these 'right-wingers' and why is there no mention of them in the article as regards 'on way'.
Hopefully, they don't mean... the police. Growing suspicion that Kyodo is run by Japanese communists backed by the Chinese government.
KJ
Jay-Z (Mar 25 2004 - 09:05)
Yo chill man, im just playin, Igotta dip to get some fix, later dogg
Who really owns them?
Lafcadio (Mar 25 2004 - 09:17)
We won't settle it on this forum!
And Jay-Z your stream of anti-China posts, which earlier referred to the place as "a nation of whores" incline me to believe you are too biased to be taken seriously. Anyway, the BBC article cited is certainly not the final word on the issue, which I happen to be quite familiar with (and not from "fabricated Chinese articles").
A quick summary -- the Diaoyus/Senkaku islands do appear on navigational charts and in Chinese literature from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). They lie on China's continental shelf, in 150 meters of water. They are separated from Japan's Okinawan shelf by a 2,000 meter deep trench.
China did ceed the islands to Japan after the Sino-Japanese war ended in 1895, however the 1943 Cairo agreement which was implemented in 1995 when Japan surrendered after WWII, gave Taiwan and the islands back to China.
Then the Chinese revolution and the Taiwan situation took the spotlight, nobody cared much about the D/S islands.
But the Cairo Agreement was overlooked by the Americans and when they returned Okinawa to Japan in 1972, the D/S islands somehow ended up as part of the package. Oops.
Neither side pushed a debate on the status of the islands, since they are barren and almost useless. In 1969 a technical report by the UN stated that oil "might" be present in the area, but none was ever found and no major oil companies are looking.) This "agree to quietly disagree" compromise was, I think, the best policy under the circumstances.
Although China did occasionally patrol the waters round the islands, it was not until the 80s and 90s, when the group Nihon Seinensha decided to provoke China by sending their "Seinen Warriors" over to build lighthouses on the D/S islands, that the issue was forced into public debate.
Nihon Seinensha is a typical J-right wing group with black buses, an official line that "comfort women" were all willing whores, that the Rape of Nanking is a lie, and so on. You know, neo-fascist ultranationalist creeps.
The LDP government decided to back them up 100%. The then J-foreign minister Yukihiko Ikeda said in an August 1996 press conference that the islands were "an indisputable part of Japanese territory," and that remark sent some 60 Chinese nationalist zealots out to tear down the lighthouse. One of them, David Chan, drowned while defying a flotilla of 20 Japanese warships dispatched to protect the lighthouse.
It seems the recent decay in Sino-Japanese relations, caused in no small part by koizumi's dedication to the worship of war criminals and ishihara's relentless anti-China slurs, have reawakened the resolve of Chinese activists, and so they set out again, Now Japan has arrested and is detaining seven of them. This morning the right-wing Yomiuri Shimbun is quick off the mark to assert Japanese sovereignty, based on the ultranationalist's favorite document, the San Francisco Treaty. And here we go again.
By the by, I think the problem with turning this issue over to the world court is that one side will lose. And children don't make good losers.
Correction
Lafcadio (Mar 25 2004 - 09:22)
In Paragraph three:
"...the 1943 Cairo agreement which was implemented in ***1995*** when Japan surrendered after WWII"
SHOULD READ "...in ***1945*** when Japan surrendered after WWII"
"Same race"
Snow (Mar 25 2004 - 09:30)
Mikel, when s/he writes, "Chinese and japanese are classified in the same race, just so you all know," would be kindly requested to remove his head from his posterior. I think terms like "Asian" are pretty useless and that many Japanese and Chinese might disagree with you. YOU might classify them as one race. YOU might even have trouble telling one person here apart from another. You may even be from a very racist culture and not have learned to think for yourself yet. But please try.
Not that I thinl "race" even exists, but if you are so intent on classifying people, at least be intelligent about it my dear KKK member.
History tells us
projapan (Mar 25 2004 - 09:33)
Surely Japanese soldiers killed Chinese Nationalists because it was war.
But on the same days Communist Chinese killed Chinese Nationalists
WW2 was over.
But still Communist Chinese killed Chinese nationalists
Chinese who were chased by Communist Chinese ran away to Taiwan.
But Chinese communists still continued to kill 20,000,000 Chinese to complete the Great Cultural Revolution. And Mao who was a leader of the massacre is the top hero in China.
History tells us that Communist China have occupied Chinese mainland.
They must get out of Chinese mainland.
If not, all the Chinese who insist Senkaku island is Com,unist China's better leave Chinese mainland for Senkaku islands.
Japan arrests 7 Chinese activists for landing on Senkakus
Hikozaemon (Mar 25 2004 - 09:55)
Lafcadio - cool info. Any info on the Chinese group involved? I have only heard on the news shown in Japan that the group is based in Hong Kong and Beijing, and organises a wide range of anti-Japanese demonstration activities not just relating to the island.
Of course, the same story also described the drooling right wingers heading out to the island as a Japanese NGO about to make an "annual survey" of the islands (hey, these guys can call themselves environmentalists).
It seems to me that the only people interested in this dispute are Japan-hating Chinese nationalist fanatics, and China-hating Japanese nationalist fanatics.
Surely leaving them all on the island and forgetting about the whole thing is the best solution?
Hiko
Lafcadio (Mar 25 2004 - 10:05)
Latest news is that one of the seven came to japan and threw paint on a statue at Yasukuni back in 2001. The group is called "China Federation for Defending the Diaoyu Islands."
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-03/24/content_1383112.htm
Was it boomeranging@on Chinese security?
chinophobia (Mar 25 2004 - 10:38)
It is important that the American government accepted these islands to be within the limits of the Japan-United States Security Treaty.
Was it boomeranging@on Chinese security?
Japaness are thief!!!
guol (Mar 25 2004 - 12:16)
Many many things can prove that japanese are theif many things from China!For example: Japanese thief Chinese character and culture, then from 1895 thief Diaoyu island from China, and now they say Diaoyu island is theirs!It is facetiosity!In addition,now japanese like a dog, follow the U.Shttp://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=1&id=292595
Police take 7 Chinese activists from Senkakus to Okinawa
Thursday, March 25, 2004 at 09:40 JST
NAHA — Police on Thursday took seven Chinese activists to Okinawa for investigations into their landing the previous day on the main island of the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea.
A Japan Coast Guard patrol ship carrying the seven and police officers arrived on Okinawa's main island at around 9:30 a.m. They were arrested Wednesday afternoon on suspicion of entering Japanese territory illegally on Uotsurijima Island and violating the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Law.
The 3.8-square-kilometer island is located just over 400 km west of the Okinawa capital of Naha. The uninhabited islands, which are surrounded by waters with rich fishing resources, fall under Okinawa Prefecture's jurisdiction.
While questioning how and why they landed on the island and what they were doing during their stay there for about 10 hours, the local police plan to consult with the National Police Agency on whether they will send the case to public prosecutors or transfer the detainees to immigration officers, the police said.
"We will thoroughly investigate the case," Kuniyoshi Niioka, chief of the Okinawa police's security division, told reporters late Wednesday night, ruling out an early transfer of the case to immigration authorities.
But the police and Japanese immigration authorities are expected to expel them from the country within 60 days of the investigation.
This is the first time Japanese police have arrested Chinese nationals for landing on the disputed islands, claimed by Japan, China and Taiwan and known as Diaoyu in China and Tiaoyutai in Taiwan.
The flag-waving activists landed on Uotsurishima around 7:20 a.m. Wednesday in two small boats after sailing off from a 100-ton ship, according to Japanese officials. The ship reportedly departed from a port in China's Zhejiang Province early Tuesday.
The landing prompted Japan to lodge an official protest with China, while Beijing expressed both concern and criticism over the arrests. But both countries have expressed hope that the incident will not harm bilateral relations.
Before the landing, Tong Zeng, head of the China Federation for Defending the Diaoyu Islands, said they are planning to leave the island after completing their "mission" of setting foot on it.
The group planted a Chinese national flag on the island, Tong said, adding they also conducted some environmental and sightseeing studies there.
Japan claimed the islands as official Japanese territory in 1895. They came under U.S. control after World War II but were returned to Japan in 1972 when the United States returned Okinawa.
In Washington, State Department deputy spokesman Adam Ereli told reporters Wednesday, "The U.S. does not take a position on the question of the ultimate sovereignty of the Senkaku-Diaoyu Islands. This has been our long-standing view."
A dispute over the islands between Japan, Taiwan and China has been brewing ever since a United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East report suggested in 1968 that there are oil deposits under the East China Sea.
In 1992, China passed a territorial sea law which included the islands as Chinese territory.
The seven are the first group of such activists to land on the main island of the Senkaku Islands since October 1996.
It was the fourth time Chinese activists had set out for the islands in the past nine months. They failed in their previous three attempts to land.
The territorial dispute over the islands between Japan, China and Taiwan intensified after a Japanese right-wing group based in Tokyo set up a lighthouse on one of the islands.
To protest over the Chinese landing, a the right-wing group said Wednesday 15 of its members are planning to land on the same island after leaving Okinawa's Ishigaki on Thursday evening.
Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi defended the arrests of the activists, saying, "It was handled strictly in accordance with the law."
But in trying to allay concerns that the arrests will not have a negative impact on Japan-China relations, Koizumi also told reporters in the evening, "It is necessary for both parties to handle the case in as calm a manner as possible."
Chinese Ambassador to Japan Wu Dawei voiced opposition to the arrests when he met with Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Yukio Takeuchi for the second time at the Foreign Ministry on Wednesday night, ministry officials said.
Takeuchi summoned Wu to the ministry to protest about the landing.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry in Beijing asked Japanese authorities to give "sober treatment" to the activists and not harm them in any way, a ministry spokesperson said.
To protest over the Chinese landing, a Tokyo-based right-wing group said Wednesday 15 of its members are planning to land on the same 3.8-square-km island after leaving Okinawa's Ishigaki on Thursday evening. (Kyodo News)
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What Japan Should Do
RapaNuiss (Mar 25 2004 - 08:07)
Keep hold onto the islands as tight as he can. Don't worry, China will never become a "Superpower" it's trying so hard to be. China will eventually find out how overheated their economy has been, and it will sunk just like many other Latin nations in Southern America.
kayjay
Jay-Z (Mar 25 2004 - 08:16)
Look maan, as long as I can remember China has been fussin over something or anything with not just neighboring Asian countries but rest of the world including TIBET.
jiga
kayjay (Mar 25 2004 - 08:24)
i agree. i aint never said one country was better than the other. my whole thing if aint about these island dude, it's something else. you feel what i'm saying cuz.
kayjay
Jay-Z (Mar 25 2004 - 08:36)
Ai, I c what ya sain and ya flava, no doubt about that man.
hova
geah, please beweeve it...
kayjay (Mar 25 2004 - 08:49)
hahahaha.
kyodo communists
hiizurukuni (Mar 25 2004 - 09:00)
" Chinese activists land on disputed Senkakus; Japan right-wingers on way "
Just who are these 'right-wingers' and why is there no mention of them in the article as regards 'on way'.
Hopefully, they don't mean... the police. Growing suspicion that Kyodo is run by Japanese communists backed by the Chinese government.
KJ
Jay-Z (Mar 25 2004 - 09:05)
Yo chill man, im just playin, Igotta dip to get some fix, later dogg
Who really owns them?
Lafcadio (Mar 25 2004 - 09:17)
We won't settle it on this forum!
And Jay-Z your stream of anti-China posts, which earlier referred to the place as "a nation of whores" incline me to believe you are too biased to be taken seriously. Anyway, the BBC article cited is certainly not the final word on the issue, which I happen to be quite familiar with (and not from "fabricated Chinese articles").
A quick summary -- the Diaoyus/Senkaku islands do appear on navigational charts and in Chinese literature from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). They lie on China's continental shelf, in 150 meters of water. They are separated from Japan's Okinawan shelf by a 2,000 meter deep trench.
China did ceed the islands to Japan after the Sino-Japanese war ended in 1895, however the 1943 Cairo agreement which was implemented in 1995 when Japan surrendered after WWII, gave Taiwan and the islands back to China.
Then the Chinese revolution and the Taiwan situation took the spotlight, nobody cared much about the D/S islands.
But the Cairo Agreement was overlooked by the Americans and when they returned Okinawa to Japan in 1972, the D/S islands somehow ended up as part of the package. Oops.
Neither side pushed a debate on the status of the islands, since they are barren and almost useless. In 1969 a technical report by the UN stated that oil "might" be present in the area, but none was ever found and no major oil companies are looking.) This "agree to quietly disagree" compromise was, I think, the best policy under the circumstances.
Although China did occasionally patrol the waters round the islands, it was not until the 80s and 90s, when the group Nihon Seinensha decided to provoke China by sending their "Seinen Warriors" over to build lighthouses on the D/S islands, that the issue was forced into public debate.
Nihon Seinensha is a typical J-right wing group with black buses, an official line that "comfort women" were all willing whores, that the Rape of Nanking is a lie, and so on. You know, neo-fascist ultranationalist creeps.
The LDP government decided to back them up 100%. The then J-foreign minister Yukihiko Ikeda said in an August 1996 press conference that the islands were "an indisputable part of Japanese territory," and that remark sent some 60 Chinese nationalist zealots out to tear down the lighthouse. One of them, David Chan, drowned while defying a flotilla of 20 Japanese warships dispatched to protect the lighthouse.
It seems the recent decay in Sino-Japanese relations, caused in no small part by koizumi's dedication to the worship of war criminals and ishihara's relentless anti-China slurs, have reawakened the resolve of Chinese activists, and so they set out again, Now Japan has arrested and is detaining seven of them. This morning the right-wing Yomiuri Shimbun is quick off the mark to assert Japanese sovereignty, based on the ultranationalist's favorite document, the San Francisco Treaty. And here we go again.
By the by, I think the problem with turning this issue over to the world court is that one side will lose. And children don't make good losers.
Correction
Lafcadio (Mar 25 2004 - 09:22)
In Paragraph three:
"...the 1943 Cairo agreement which was implemented in ***1995*** when Japan surrendered after WWII"
SHOULD READ "...in ***1945*** when Japan surrendered after WWII"
"Same race"
Snow (Mar 25 2004 - 09:30)
Mikel, when s/he writes, "Chinese and japanese are classified in the same race, just so you all know," would be kindly requested to remove his head from his posterior. I think terms like "Asian" are pretty useless and that many Japanese and Chinese might disagree with you. YOU might classify them as one race. YOU might even have trouble telling one person here apart from another. You may even be from a very racist culture and not have learned to think for yourself yet. But please try.
Not that I thinl "race" even exists, but if you are so intent on classifying people, at least be intelligent about it my dear KKK member.
History tells us
projapan (Mar 25 2004 - 09:33)
Surely Japanese soldiers killed Chinese Nationalists because it was war.
But on the same days Communist Chinese killed Chinese Nationalists
WW2 was over.
But still Communist Chinese killed Chinese nationalists
Chinese who were chased by Communist Chinese ran away to Taiwan.
But Chinese communists still continued to kill 20,000,000 Chinese to complete the Great Cultural Revolution. And Mao who was a leader of the massacre is the top hero in China.
History tells us that Communist China have occupied Chinese mainland.
They must get out of Chinese mainland.
If not, all the Chinese who insist Senkaku island is Com,unist China's better leave Chinese mainland for Senkaku islands.
Japan arrests 7 Chinese activists for landing on Senkakus
Hikozaemon (Mar 25 2004 - 09:55)
Lafcadio - cool info. Any info on the Chinese group involved? I have only heard on the news shown in Japan that the group is based in Hong Kong and Beijing, and organises a wide range of anti-Japanese demonstration activities not just relating to the island.
Of course, the same story also described the drooling right wingers heading out to the island as a Japanese NGO about to make an "annual survey" of the islands (hey, these guys can call themselves environmentalists).
It seems to me that the only people interested in this dispute are Japan-hating Chinese nationalist fanatics, and China-hating Japanese nationalist fanatics.
Surely leaving them all on the island and forgetting about the whole thing is the best solution?
Hiko
Lafcadio (Mar 25 2004 - 10:05)
Latest news is that one of the seven came to japan and threw paint on a statue at Yasukuni back in 2001. The group is called "China Federation for Defending the Diaoyu Islands."
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-03/24/content_1383112.htm
Was it boomeranging@on Chinese security?
chinophobia (Mar 25 2004 - 10:38)
It is important that the American government accepted these islands to be within the limits of the Japan-United States Security Treaty.
Was it boomeranging@on Chinese security?
Japaness are thief!!!
guol (Mar 25 2004 - 12:16)
Many many things can prove that japanese are theif many things from China!For example: Japanese thief Chinese character and culture, then from 1895 thief Diaoyu island from China, and now they say Diaoyu island is theirs!It is facetiosity!In addition,now japanese like a dog, follow the U.S
Police take 7 Chinese activists from Senkakus to Okinawa
Thursday, March 25, 2004 at 09:40 JST
NAHA — Police on Thursday took seven Chinese activists to Okinawa for investigations into their landing the previous day on the main island of the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea.
A Japan Coast Guard patrol ship carrying the seven and police officers arrived on Okinawa's main island at around 9:30 a.m. They were arrested Wednesday afternoon on suspicion of entering Japanese territory illegally on Uotsurijima Island and violating the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Law.
The 3.8-square-kilometer island is located just over 400 km west of the Okinawa capital of Naha. The uninhabited islands, which are surrounded by waters with rich fishing resources, fall under Okinawa Prefecture's jurisdiction.
While questioning how and why they landed on the island and what they were doing during their stay there for about 10 hours, the local police plan to consult with the National Police Agency on whether they will send the case to public prosecutors or transfer the detainees to immigration officers, the police said.
"We will thoroughly investigate the case," Kuniyoshi Niioka, chief of the Okinawa police's security division, told reporters late Wednesday night, ruling out an early transfer of the case to immigration authorities.
But the police and Japanese immigration authorities are expected to expel them from the country within 60 days of the investigation.
This is the first time Japanese police have arrested Chinese nationals for landing on the disputed islands, claimed by Japan, China and Taiwan and known as Diaoyu in China and Tiaoyutai in Taiwan.
The flag-waving activists landed on Uotsurishima around 7:20 a.m. Wednesday in two small boats after sailing off from a 100-ton ship, according to Japanese officials. The ship reportedly departed from a port in China's Zhejiang Province early Tuesday.
The landing prompted Japan to lodge an official protest with China, while Beijing expressed both concern and criticism over the arrests. But both countries have expressed hope that the incident will not harm bilateral relations.
Before the landing, Tong Zeng, head of the China Federation for Defending the Diaoyu Islands, said they are planning to leave the island after completing their "mission" of setting foot on it.
The group planted a Chinese national flag on the island, Tong said, adding they also conducted some environmental and sightseeing studies there.
Japan claimed the islands as official Japanese territory in 1895. They came under U.S. control after World War II but were returned to Japan in 1972 when the United States returned Okinawa.
In Washington, State Department deputy spokesman Adam Ereli told reporters Wednesday, "The U.S. does not take a position on the question of the ultimate sovereignty of the Senkaku-Diaoyu Islands. This has been our long-standing view."
A dispute over the islands between Japan, Taiwan and China has been brewing ever since a United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East report suggested in 1968 that there are oil deposits under the East China Sea.
In 1992, China passed a territorial sea law which included the islands as Chinese territory.
The seven are the first group of such activists to land on the main island of the Senkaku Islands since October 1996.
It was the fourth time Chinese activists had set out for the islands in the past nine months. They failed in their previous three attempts to land.
The territorial dispute over the islands between Japan, China and Taiwan intensified after a Japanese right-wing group based in Tokyo set up a lighthouse on one of the islands.
To protest over the Chinese landing, a the right-wing group said Wednesday 15 of its members are planning to land on the same island after leaving Okinawa's Ishigaki on Thursday evening.
Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi defended the arrests of the activists, saying, "It was handled strictly in accordance with the law."
But in trying to allay concerns that the arrests will not have a negative impact on Japan-China relations, Koizumi also told reporters in the evening, "It is necessary for both parties to handle the case in as calm a manner as possible."
Chinese Ambassador to Japan Wu Dawei voiced opposition to the arrests when he met with Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Yukio Takeuchi for the second time at the Foreign Ministry on Wednesday night, ministry officials said.
Takeuchi summoned Wu to the ministry to protest about the landing.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry in Beijing asked Japanese authorities to give "sober treatment" to the activists and not harm them in any way, a ministry spokesperson said.
To protest over the Chinese landing, a Tokyo-based right-wing group said Wednesday 15 of its members are planning to land on the same 3.8-square-km island after leaving Okinawa's Ishigaki on Thursday evening. (Kyodo News)
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RapaNuiss (Mar 25 2004 - 08:07)
Keep hold onto the islands as tight as he can. Don't worry, China will never become a "Superpower" it's trying so hard to be. China will eventually find out how overheated their economy has been, and it will sunk just like many other Latin nations in Southern America.
kayjay
Jay-Z (Mar 25 2004 - 08:16)
Look maan, as long as I can remember China has been fussin over something or anything with not just neighboring Asian countries but rest of the world including TIBET.
jiga
kayjay (Mar 25 2004 - 08:24)
i agree. i aint never said one country was better than the other. my whole thing if aint about these island dude, it's something else. you feel what i'm saying cuz.
kayjay
Jay-Z (Mar 25 2004 - 08:36)
Ai, I c what ya sain and ya flava, no doubt about that man.
hova
geah, please beweeve it...
kayjay (Mar 25 2004 - 08:49)
hahahaha.
kyodo communists
hiizurukuni (Mar 25 2004 - 09:00)
" Chinese activists land on disputed Senkakus; Japan right-wingers on way "
Just who are these 'right-wingers' and why is there no mention of them in the article as regards 'on way'.
Hopefully, they don't mean... the police. Growing suspicion that Kyodo is run by Japanese communists backed by the Chinese government.
KJ
Jay-Z (Mar 25 2004 - 09:05)
Yo chill man, im just playin, Igotta dip to get some fix, later dogg
Who really owns them?
Lafcadio (Mar 25 2004 - 09:17)
We won't settle it on this forum!
And Jay-Z your stream of anti-China posts, which earlier referred to the place as "a nation of whores" incline me to believe you are too biased to be taken seriously. Anyway, the BBC article cited is certainly not the final word on the issue, which I happen to be quite familiar with (and not from "fabricated Chinese articles").
A quick summary -- the Diaoyus/Senkaku islands do appear on navigational charts and in Chinese literature from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). They lie on China's continental shelf, in 150 meters of water. They are separated from Japan's Okinawan shelf by a 2,000 meter deep trench.
China did ceed the islands to Japan after the Sino-Japanese war ended in 1895, however the 1943 Cairo agreement which was implemented in 1995 when Japan surrendered after WWII, gave Taiwan and the islands back to China.
Then the Chinese revolution and the Taiwan situation took the spotlight, nobody cared much about the D/S islands.
But the Cairo Agreement was overlooked by the Americans and when they returned Okinawa to Japan in 1972, the D/S islands somehow ended up as part of the package. Oops.
Neither side pushed a debate on the status of the islands, since they are barren and almost useless. In 1969 a technical report by the UN stated that oil "might" be present in the area, but none was ever found and no major oil companies are looking.) This "agree to quietly disagree" compromise was, I think, the best policy under the circumstances.
Although China did occasionally patrol the waters round the islands, it was not until the 80s and 90s, when the group Nihon Seinensha decided to provoke China by sending their "Seinen Warriors" over to build lighthouses on the D/S islands, that the issue was forced into public debate.
Nihon Seinensha is a typical J-right wing group with black buses, an official line that "comfort women" were all willing whores, that the Rape of Nanking is a lie, and so on. You know, neo-fascist ultranationalist creeps.
The LDP government decided to back them up 100%. The then J-foreign minister Yukihiko Ikeda said in an August 1996 press conference that the islands were "an indisputable part of Japanese territory," and that remark sent some 60 Chinese nationalist zealots out to tear down the lighthouse. One of them, David Chan, drowned while defying a flotilla of 20 Japanese warships dispatched to protect the lighthouse.
It seems the recent decay in Sino-Japanese relations, caused in no small part by koizumi's dedication to the worship of war criminals and ishihara's relentless anti-China slurs, have reawakened the resolve of Chinese activists, and so they set out again, Now Japan has arrested and is detaining seven of them. This morning the right-wing Yomiuri Shimbun is quick off the mark to assert Japanese sovereignty, based on the ultranationalist's favorite document, the San Francisco Treaty. And here we go again.
By the by, I think the problem with turning this issue over to the world court is that one side will lose. And children don't make good losers.
Correction
Lafcadio (Mar 25 2004 - 09:22)
In Paragraph three:
"...the 1943 Cairo agreement which was implemented in ***1995*** when Japan surrendered after WWII"
SHOULD READ "...in ***1945*** when Japan surrendered after WWII"
"Same race"
Snow (Mar 25 2004 - 09:30)
Mikel, when s/he writes, "Chinese and japanese are classified in the same race, just so you all know," would be kindly requested to remove his head from his posterior. I think terms like "Asian" are pretty useless and that many Japanese and Chinese might disagree with you. YOU might classify them as one race. YOU might even have trouble telling one person here apart from another. You may even be from a very racist culture and not have learned to think for yourself yet. But please try.
Not that I thinl "race" even exists, but if you are so intent on classifying people, at least be intelligent about it my dear KKK member.
History tells us
projapan (Mar 25 2004 - 09:33)
Surely Japanese soldiers killed Chinese Nationalists because it was war.
But on the same days Communist Chinese killed Chinese Nationalists
WW2 was over.
But still Communist Chinese killed Chinese nationalists
Chinese who were chased by Communist Chinese ran away to Taiwan.
But Chinese communists still continued to kill 20,000,000 Chinese to complete the Great Cultural Revolution. And Mao who was a leader of the massacre is the top hero in China.
History tells us that Communist China have occupied Chinese mainland.
They must get out of Chinese mainland.
If not, all the Chinese who insist Senkaku island is Com,unist China's better leave Chinese mainland for Senkaku islands.
Japan arrests 7 Chinese activists for landing on Senkakus
Hikozaemon (Mar 25 2004 - 09:55)
Lafcadio - cool info. Any info on the Chinese group involved? I have only heard on the news shown in Japan that the group is based in Hong Kong and Beijing, and organises a wide range of anti-Japanese demonstration activities not just relating to the island.
Of course, the same story also described the drooling right wingers heading out to the island as a Japanese NGO about to make an "annual survey" of the islands (hey, these guys can call themselves environmentalists).
It seems to me that the only people interested in this dispute are Japan-hating Chinese nationalist fanatics, and China-hating Japanese nationalist fanatics.
Surely leaving them all on the island and forgetting about the whole thing is the best solution?
Hiko
Lafcadio (Mar 25 2004 - 10:05)
Latest news is that one of the seven came to japan and threw paint on a statue at Yasukuni back in 2001. The group is called "China Federation for Defending the Diaoyu Islands."
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-03/24/content_1383112.htm
Was it boomeranging@on Chinese security?
chinophobia (Mar 25 2004 - 10:38)
It is important that the American government accepted these islands to be within the limits of the Japan-United States Security Treaty.
Was it boomeranging@on Chinese security?
Japaness are thief!!!
guol (Mar 25 2004 - 12:16)
Many many things can prove that japanese are theif many things from China!For example: Japanese thief Chinese character and culture, then from 1895 thief Diaoyu island from China, and now they say Diaoyu island is theirs!It is facetiosity!In addition,now japanese like a dog, follow the U.Shttp://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=1&id=292595
Police take 7 Chinese activists from Senkakus to Okinawa
Thursday, March 25, 2004 at 09:40 JST
NAHA — Police on Thursday took seven Chinese activists to Okinawa for investigations into their landing the previous day on the main island of the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea.
A Japan Coast Guard patrol ship carrying the seven and police officers arrived on Okinawa's main island at around 9:30 a.m. They were arrested Wednesday afternoon on suspicion of entering Japanese territory illegally on Uotsurijima Island and violating the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Law.
The 3.8-square-kilometer island is located just over 400 km west of the Okinawa capital of Naha. The uninhabited islands, which are surrounded by waters with rich fishing resources, fall under Okinawa Prefecture's jurisdiction.
While questioning how and why they landed on the island and what they were doing during their stay there for about 10 hours, the local police plan to consult with the National Police Agency on whether they will send the case to public prosecutors or transfer the detainees to immigration officers, the police said.
"We will thoroughly investigate the case," Kuniyoshi Niioka, chief of the Okinawa police's security division, told reporters late Wednesday night, ruling out an early transfer of the case to immigration authorities.
But the police and Japanese immigration authorities are expected to expel them from the country within 60 days of the investigation.
This is the first time Japanese police have arrested Chinese nationals for landing on the disputed islands, claimed by Japan, China and Taiwan and known as Diaoyu in China and Tiaoyutai in Taiwan.
The flag-waving activists landed on Uotsurishima around 7:20 a.m. Wednesday in two small boats after sailing off from a 100-ton ship, according to Japanese officials. The ship reportedly departed from a port in China's Zhejiang Province early Tuesday.
The landing prompted Japan to lodge an official protest with China, while Beijing expressed both concern and criticism over the arrests. But both countries have expressed hope that the incident will not harm bilateral relations.
Before the landing, Tong Zeng, head of the China Federation for Defending the Diaoyu Islands, said they are planning to leave the island after completing their "mission" of setting foot on it.
The group planted a Chinese national flag on the island, Tong said, adding they also conducted some environmental and sightseeing studies there.
Japan claimed the islands as official Japanese territory in 1895. They came under U.S. control after World War II but were returned to Japan in 1972 when the United States returned Okinawa.
In Washington, State Department deputy spokesman Adam Ereli told reporters Wednesday, "The U.S. does not take a position on the question of the ultimate sovereignty of the Senkaku-Diaoyu Islands. This has been our long-standing view."
A dispute over the islands between Japan, Taiwan and China has been brewing ever since a United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East report suggested in 1968 that there are oil deposits under the East China Sea.
In 1992, China passed a territorial sea law which included the islands as Chinese territory.
The seven are the first group of such activists to land on the main island of the Senkaku Islands since October 1996.
It was the fourth time Chinese activists had set out for the islands in the past nine months. They failed in their previous three attempts to land.
The territorial dispute over the islands between Japan, China and Taiwan intensified after a Japanese right-wing group based in Tokyo set up a lighthouse on one of the islands.
To protest over the Chinese landing, a the right-wing group said Wednesday 15 of its members are planning to land on the same island after leaving Okinawa's Ishigaki on Thursday evening.
Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi defended the arrests of the activists, saying, "It was handled strictly in accordance with the law."
But in trying to allay concerns that the arrests will not have a negative impact on Japan-China relations, Koizumi also told reporters in the evening, "It is necessary for both parties to handle the case in as calm a manner as possible."
Chinese Ambassador to Japan Wu Dawei voiced opposition to the arrests when he met with Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Yukio Takeuchi for the second time at the Foreign Ministry on Wednesday night, ministry officials said.
Takeuchi summoned Wu to the ministry to protest about the landing.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry in Beijing asked Japanese authorities to give "sober treatment" to the activists and not harm them in any way, a ministry spokesperson said.
To protest over the Chinese landing, a Tokyo-based right-wing group said Wednesday 15 of its members are planning to land on the same 3.8-square-km island after leaving Okinawa's Ishigaki on Thursday evening. (Kyodo News)
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RapaNuiss (Mar 25 2004 - 08:07)
Keep hold onto the islands as tight as he can. Don't worry, China will never become a "Superpower" it's trying so hard to be. China will eventually find out how overheated their economy has been, and it will sunk just like many other Latin nations in Southern America.
kayjay
Jay-Z (Mar 25 2004 - 08:16)
Look maan, as long as I can remember China has been fussin over something or anything with not just neighboring Asian countries but rest of the world including TIBET.
jiga
kayjay (Mar 25 2004 - 08:24)
i agree. i aint never said one country was better than the other. my whole thing if aint about these island dude, it's something else. you feel what i'm saying cuz.
kayjay
Jay-Z (Mar 25 2004 - 08:36)
Ai, I c what ya sain and ya flava, no doubt about that man.
hova
geah, please beweeve it...
kayjay (Mar 25 2004 - 08:49)
hahahaha.
kyodo communists
hiizurukuni (Mar 25 2004 - 09:00)
" Chinese activists land on disputed Senkakus; Japan right-wingers on way "
Just who are these 'right-wingers' and why is there no mention of them in the article as regards 'on way'.
Hopefully, they don't mean... the police. Growing suspicion that Kyodo is run by Japanese communists backed by the Chinese government.
KJ
Jay-Z (Mar 25 2004 - 09:05)
Yo chill man, im just playin, Igotta dip to get some fix, later dogg
Who really owns them?
Lafcadio (Mar 25 2004 - 09:17)
We won't settle it on this forum!
And Jay-Z your stream of anti-China posts, which earlier referred to the place as "a nation of whores" incline me to believe you are too biased to be taken seriously. Anyway, the BBC article cited is certainly not the final word on the issue, which I happen to be quite familiar with (and not from "fabricated Chinese articles").
A quick summary -- the Diaoyus/Senkaku islands do appear on navigational charts and in Chinese literature from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). They lie on China's continental shelf, in 150 meters of water. They are separated from Japan's Okinawan shelf by a 2,000 meter deep trench.
China did ceed the islands to Japan after the Sino-Japanese war ended in 1895, however the 1943 Cairo agreement which was implemented in 1995 when Japan surrendered after WWII, gave Taiwan and the islands back to China.
Then the Chinese revolution and the Taiwan situation took the spotlight, nobody cared much about the D/S islands.
But the Cairo Agreement was overlooked by the Americans and when they returned Okinawa to Japan in 1972, the D/S islands somehow ended up as part of the package. Oops.
Neither side pushed a debate on the status of the islands, since they are barren and almost useless. In 1969 a technical report by the UN stated that oil "might" be present in the area, but none was ever found and no major oil companies are looking.) This "agree to quietly disagree" compromise was, I think, the best policy under the circumstances.
Although China did occasionally patrol the waters round the islands, it was not until the 80s and 90s, when the group Nihon Seinensha decided to provoke China by sending their "Seinen Warriors" over to build lighthouses on the D/S islands, that the issue was forced into public debate.
Nihon Seinensha is a typical J-right wing group with black buses, an official line that "comfort women" were all willing whores, that the Rape of Nanking is a lie, and so on. You know, neo-fascist ultranationalist creeps.
The LDP government decided to back them up 100%. The then J-foreign minister Yukihiko Ikeda said in an August 1996 press conference that the islands were "an indisputable part of Japanese territory," and that remark sent some 60 Chinese nationalist zealots out to tear down the lighthouse. One of them, David Chan, drowned while defying a flotilla of 20 Japanese warships dispatched to protect the lighthouse.
It seems the recent decay in Sino-Japanese relations, caused in no small part by koizumi's dedication to the worship of war criminals and ishihara's relentless anti-China slurs, have reawakened the resolve of Chinese activists, and so they set out again, Now Japan has arrested and is detaining seven of them. This morning the right-wing Yomiuri Shimbun is quick off the mark to assert Japanese sovereignty, based on the ultranationalist's favorite document, the San Francisco Treaty. And here we go again.
By the by, I think the problem with turning this issue over to the world court is that one side will lose. And children don't make good losers.
Correction
Lafcadio (Mar 25 2004 - 09:22)
In Paragraph three:
"...the 1943 Cairo agreement which was implemented in ***1995*** when Japan surrendered after WWII"
SHOULD READ "...in ***1945*** when Japan surrendered after WWII"
"Same race"
Snow (Mar 25 2004 - 09:30)
Mikel, when s/he writes, "Chinese and japanese are classified in the same race, just so you all know," would be kindly requested to remove his head from his posterior. I think terms like "Asian" are pretty useless and that many Japanese and Chinese might disagree with you. YOU might classify them as one race. YOU might even have trouble telling one person here apart from another. You may even be from a very racist culture and not have learned to think for yourself yet. But please try.
Not that I thinl "race" even exists, but if you are so intent on classifying people, at least be intelligent about it my dear KKK member.
History tells us
projapan (Mar 25 2004 - 09:33)
Surely Japanese soldiers killed Chinese Nationalists because it was war.
But on the same days Communist Chinese killed Chinese Nationalists
WW2 was over.
But still Communist Chinese killed Chinese nationalists
Chinese who were chased by Communist Chinese ran away to Taiwan.
But Chinese communists still continued to kill 20,000,000 Chinese to complete the Great Cultural Revolution. And Mao who was a leader of the massacre is the top hero in China.
History tells us that Communist China have occupied Chinese mainland.
They must get out of Chinese mainland.
If not, all the Chinese who insist Senkaku island is Com,unist China's better leave Chinese mainland for Senkaku islands.
Japan arrests 7 Chinese activists for landing on Senkakus
Hikozaemon (Mar 25 2004 - 09:55)
Lafcadio - cool info. Any info on the Chinese group involved? I have only heard on the news shown in Japan that the group is based in Hong Kong and Beijing, and organises a wide range of anti-Japanese demonstration activities not just relating to the island.
Of course, the same story also described the drooling right wingers heading out to the island as a Japanese NGO about to make an "annual survey" of the islands (hey, these guys can call themselves environmentalists).
It seems to me that the only people interested in this dispute are Japan-hating Chinese nationalist fanatics, and China-hating Japanese nationalist fanatics.
Surely leaving them all on the island and forgetting about the whole thing is the best solution?
Hiko
Lafcadio (Mar 25 2004 - 10:05)
Latest news is that one of the seven came to japan and threw paint on a statue at Yasukuni back in 2001. The group is called "China Federation for Defending the Diaoyu Islands."
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-03/24/content_1383112.htm
Was it boomeranging@on Chinese security?
chinophobia (Mar 25 2004 - 10:38)
It is important that the American government accepted these islands to be within the limits of the Japan-United States Security Treaty.
Was it boomeranging@on Chinese security?
Japaness are thief!!!
guol (Mar 25 2004 - 12:16)
Many many things can prove that japanese are theif many things from China!For example: Japanese thief Chinese character and culture, then from 1895 thief Diaoyu island from China, and now they say Diaoyu island is theirs!It is facetiosity!In addition,now japanese like a dog, follow the U.S
誓杀倭寇！