Diaoyu Islands News and Updates

[Kiss_of_the_Dragon]

We don't need anyone to inflame nationalism when racists like Shintaro Ishihara are elected by the Japanese people as their politicians.

somehow provocations from Japan, the Philippines and Vietnam are entirely ignored, the racist Governor of Tokyo Ishihara was the one who started the flare up over the islands by trying to nationalize them, the same Governor who thinks post menopausal women should die, the same Governor who used racial slurs to refer to non Japanese and thinks World War 2 was a friendly military exercise.

The fact that the Philippines arbitraily claimed the Spratly islands out of thin air and lied that it was terra nullius after the Republic of China (Taiwan) occupied, garrisoned and claimed the islands also never features in the western media for some reason.

Vietnam inviting India to drill in disputed EEZs also somehow never is the reason. Only when China does something foreigners have the gall to claim that disputes are being used to "flare nationalism".

We dont need to prove ourself to be the good guys nor the nice guys, when nasty event happens, just deal with it accordingly.

 

[Solomon2]

The fact that the Philippines arbitraily claimed the Spratly islands out of thin air and lied that it was terra nullius after the Republic of China (Taiwan) occupied, garrisoned and claimed the islands also never features in the western media for some reason.

If China is so confident as to its claims, why did it abrogate the UNCLOS arbitration and dispute resolution process in favor of armed conflict?

 

[Wholegrain]

If China is so confident as to its claims, why did it abrogate the UNCLOS arbitration and dispute resolution process in favor of armed conflict?

The "dispute resolution process" involves a key ally of the Philippines and Japan which is notorious- for allowing its allies to break international law and trample on other countries rights, as long as its own interests are protected.

Japan itself surrendered the Spratly Islands to the Republic of China after world war 2 and it knows this, and even then it supports the Philippines and Vietnam since it doesn't give a damn about legitimacy but only its own interests.

Spratly Islands (reefs, South China Sea) -- Encyclopedia Britannica

Vietnam Joins the World - Google knygos

Where in the World is the Philippines?

The Law of the Sea and Northeast Asia

 

[Solomon2]

The "dispute resolution process" involves a key ally of the Philippines and Japan which is notorious- for allowing its allies to break international law and trample on other countries rights, as long as its own interests are protected.

Can you be more specific? If so, why is this an issue that compels China to reject this aspect of the UNCLOS treaty?

 

[SenLin]

Japan considers stationing workers on disputed islands

China says it will not tolerate 'any provocative acts of escalation' in dispute over uninhabited islands in East China Sea


China and Japan have exchanged fiery diplomatic rhetoric about a group of disputed islands in the East China Sea, with a Japanese government spokesperson suggesting the country may station workers on the islands, after an unidentified drone nearly entered Japanese airspace.

A territorial dispute over the uninhabited islands, called the Diaoyu by China and the Senkakus by Japan, has strained political and economic ties since last year, when the Japanese government purchased three of the islands from a private owner. This Wednesday will mark the one-year anniversary of the purchase.

On Monday Japan scrambled an unspecified number of fighter jets after an unmanned aerial vehicle flew within 130 miles of the islands. The drone, which did not bear a national flag, circled the islands before flying north-west towards China, according to Japan's defence ministry. It did not enter Japanese airspace.

"Japan will enforce increased security to protect our land, sea, and airspace around the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea," Japan's chief cabinet secretary and top government spokesperson, Yoshihide Suga, told reporters on Tuesday, according to Kyodo News International. He said stationing government workers on the islands was an option.

China's foreign ministry spokesman, Hong Lei, responded to Suga's remarks at a regular news briefing on Tuesday. "The Chinese government has an unshakeable resolve and determination to protect the country's territorial sovereignty and will not tolerate any provocative acts of escalation over China's sovereignty," he said. "If the Japanese side recklessly makes provocative moves it will have to accept the consequences."

China blames Japan for never properly atoning for atrocities committed during the 1930s and 40s, when Japanese forces occupied huge swaths of territory along the country's east coast.

Over the past year, China has sent numerous air and sea vehicles near the disputed islands to conduct what it calls routine patrols. On Tuesday morning the Chinese coastguard sent a seven-ship fleet near the islands, in what the state newswire Xinhua called the country's "59th Diaoyu Islands patrol".

On Monday two Chinese navy frigates passed through Japanese waters near Okinawa. On Sunday two Chinese H-6 bombers skirted Japanese airspace on a flight from the mainland to the Pacific Ocean.

China's maritime watchdog has announced plans to build 11 drone bases along the country's east coast to conduct maritime surveillance missions. Last autumn a senior People's Liberation Army colonel told state media that the drones would be used to monitor the islands.

"Around the Diaoyu Islands, the Japanese authority is able to identify vessels approaching the area very quickly, and this is exactly what we lack," Senior Colonel Du Wenlong told the state-run broadcaster China Radio International.


Japan considers stationing workers on disputed islands | World news | theguardian.com

 

[DoTell]

The heroic Japanese have never feared warring with the big boys. They did it with Russia, America. And they beat the heck of the sick men of Asia in China. The time is now for another fight. Come on Japs, make your move!

-- Signed Yamamoto Isoroku, mastermind of the Pearl Harbor Attack from heaven

 

[GR!FF!N]

It has been one year since the Japanese government purchased the disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu islands from the Kurihara family. Despite initial alarm that the dispute would spark an unintended war, both China and Japan have managed the new normal of tension around the islands, without escalation. But the next year will not be without its challenges.

The issue has been complicated in recent weeks with renewed calls within Japan for stationing permanent structures and personnel on the islands, as well as an uptick in paramilitary and military patrols of the area. The introduction of UAVs to the theater and confusion as to whether or not China considers the islands a “core interest” will further complicate the dispute in the year to come.

The Senkaku purchase now joins a series of anniversaries in September steeped in historical baggage for the two nations: September 18, 1931 is the day on which the Manchurian Incident occurred, while Japan formally surrendered to the Allied Powers on September 2.

In the week leading up to the anniversary China has increased maritime patrols near the islands, flown two bombers between the Okinawa and Miyakojima and conducted an exercise near the islands with a UAV. These actions indicate that China is signaling that it can assert its territorial claims with surveillance and military capabilities, matching Japan’s plan to increase its level of maritime patrols and defense capability to “respond to attacks on remote islands.” The uptick in military and paramilitary hardware traversing the island chain also risks the chance for miscommunication and collisions that could spiral out of control. The use of UAVs and the chance that the threshold for engaging them could be lower than manned aircraft also adds a new escalatory risk to the dynamic that will need to be managed.

As China flexes its growing air and maritime capability, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga has suggested public officials could be stationed on the island. This threat echoes Tokyo's former nationalist governor, Shintaro Ishihara (Japan Restoration Party), who suggested in April 2012 that Tokyo purchase the islands from their private owners and station government workers there in newly constructed facilities. China’s outrage at Ishihara’s plan compelled the then Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (DPJ) to respond on the one hand to the Chinese reaction, and on the other to the growing popularity of nationalist parties, like the JRP. The solution was the “nationalization” of the islands though a central government purchase and without a garrison or officials stationed there.

Suga said the renewed idea will be considered from “a strategic viewpoint.” The lack of clarity on what possible red-line could trigger the decision will complicate Sino-Japanese relations in 2014, but the “strategic” decisions will undoubtedly also be made with the U.S. in mind, which for its part would rather not have to demonstrate its alliance credibility with Japan or test Chinese maritime resolve in the region. It could be that the U.S., like it did in 1971, is able to persuade Japan not to build or station officials on the island for the sake of foregoing “needless increase in tension in the area,” as the project “would be interpreted by both (Taiwan and China) as raising stakes in [a] quarrel.” But ultimately this development will test the ability of Abe and Xi to deal with crisis and maintain the status quo without escalation.

Since the purchase, China and Japan have managed to go a year without serious incident in relation to the territorial dispute, but developments in the last few weeks do not bode well for 2014.


Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands: A Tense Anniversary | Flashpoints | The Diplomat

 

[Minjitta]

The heroic Japanese have never feared warring with the big boys. They did it with Russia, America. And they beat the heck of the sick men of Asia in China. The time is now for another fight. Come on Japs, make your move!

-- Signed Yamamoto Isoroku, mastermind of the Pearl Harbor Attack from heaven

Becareful what you ask for son!!!

 

[DoTell]

Becareful what you ask for son!!!

You too, fool

 

[bolo]

The heroic Japanese have never feared warring with the big boys. They did it with Russia, America. And they beat the heck of the sick men of Asia in China. The time is now for another fight. Come on Japs, make your move!

-- Signed Yamamoto Isoroku, mastermind of the Pearl Harbor Attack from heaven

Right, because this Asshole coward Isoroku isn't the one who's putting his *** on the line.

 

[MarveL]

Repeat After Me, Class: The Senkaku Islands Belong to Japan

Tokyo changes textbooks to emphasize claims to disputed islands

By Michelle Arrouas
Jan. 29, 2014


Japan is to revise official high school teaching manuals to assert its territorial claims over disputed islands, in a move that has angered China and South Korea, AP reports.

The textbook revisions concern the Senkaku islands in the East China Sea, which are claimed by China as the Diaoyu Islands, and the Takeshima Islands in the Sea of Japan, which are claimed by South Korea, where they are known as the Dokdo Islands.

“Naturally, we must teach our own territory accurately to our children,” Education Minister Hakubun Shimomura said to media.

The foreign ministries of South Korea and China issued strong condemnations.

In South Korea, the ministry’s spokesman Cha Tai-young said that Japan “must not teach false history to the young generation and plant enmity and seeds of conflict with its neighbors,” while a spokeswoman in the Chinese Foreign Ministry urged Japan to “respect historical facts” and “stop provocations.”

The revision of the teaching material is the latest addition to a long list of Japanese history textbook controversies. Most have been over the depictions of the actions of the Empire of Japan during the first half of the last century, with both China and South Korea claiming that Japan has whitewashed its World War II legacy and distorted the past. Textbook accounts of the Rape of Nanjing in 1937 — when Japanese soldiers killed several hundred thousand Chinese during a six-week bloodbath — have caused particular anomosity China and Japan.

Japan Revises Textbooks to Boost Island Claims | TIME.com

 

[shuttler]

If China is so confident as to its claims, why did it abrogate the UNCLOS arbitration and dispute resolution process in favor of armed conflict?

when you are the owner of house do you go to court to fight for the ownership claim if a thief has lodged a legal complaint against your ownership?

because unclos arbitration court may compose of some asshole judges who may defy the facts for compliance with their political agenda

case in point during the Tokyo War Crime Tribunal, there was an indian asshole judge Radhabinod Pal who is the shame of all human races by doing this:

Justice Radha Binod Pal (27 January 1886 – 10 January 1967) was an indian jurist. He was the indian member appointed to the International Military Tribunal for the Far East's trials of Japanese war crimes committed during the second World War.

Among all the judges of the tribunal, he was the only one who submitted a judgment which insisted all defendants were not guilty. The Yasukuni Shrine and the Kyoto Ryozen Gokoku Shrine has monuments specially dedicated to Justice Pal.

Radhabinod Pal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Solomon2]

when you are the owner of house do you go to court to fight for the ownership claim if a thief has lodged a legal complaint against your ownership?

Circular argument.

because unclos arbitration court may compose of some asshole judges who may defy the facts for compliance with their political agenda

Because that's exactly what China does and you're projecting such behavior onto others?

 

[bolo]

Circular argument.

Because that's exactly what China does and you're projecting such behavior onto others?

*yawn* Your posts are getting tiresome. go back defending your beloved Jews.

 

[shuttler]

Circular argument.

Because that's exactly what China does and you're projecting such behavior onto others?

invalid reply!

we are just claiming what belong to us
indians should not meddle into other people's affair when you have more than enough of your own


China protests Japan's textbook revision - Xinhua | English.news.cn
English.news.cn 2014-01-29 11:09:47

BEIJING, Jan. 29 (Xinhuanet) -- China has condemned a move by Japan to amend school history books, and lodged a formal complaint. The changes will ensure that the disputed Diaoyu Islands are described as Japanese territory. China's Foreign Ministry has called the move "provocative" and reaffirmed China's claim over the islands.


The revisions to school teaching manuals have been announced by Japan's Education Ministry. Many of the changes cover disputes with China.

Japan's Kyodo News says the new manuals will refer to the Diaoyu Islands as "Japan's integral territories".

China has lodged a stern protest, and urged Japan to stop provocative actions and respect historical realities.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said: "I want to emphasize that the Diaoyu Islands and its affiliated islets are an inherent part of China's territory. No matter how hard Japan promotes its stance, the fact that the Diaoyu Islands are an inherent part of China cannot be changed.



"Once again, China urges Japan to respect historical facts, stop provocations, and educate its younger generation with correct historic values. And we hope Japan will make concrete efforts to improve relations with its neighboring countries."

The revisions will affect the teaching of history and geography in junior and senior high schools.

The disputed islands have long been a thorn in diplomatic relations between Japan and its neighbors. But tensions rose significantly in 2012, after the Japanese government bought three of the islands from their alleged private Japanese owner.

The Diaoyu Islands are an uninhabited island chain in the East China Sea. China says they were invaded and occupied by Japan during World War II.

The Chinese government has frequently cited documents signed at the end of the war, that say the islands should be returned to China.

(Source: CNTV.cn)

Other than another nonsense created by the japanese on our Diaoyu Islands, the japs has done their bit over claims on S Korean islands and the Koreans also strongly protested:

Koreans protest Japanese move on disputed islets - Channel NewsAsia

By Lim Yun Suk
29 Jan 2014 20:28

The announcement by Japan's education ministry stating that its teaching materials for middle and high school students would claim disputed islets, called Dokdo by South Korea and Takeshima in Japan, as part of Japanese territory angered the Koreans.

SEOUL: Dozens of people from various groups rallied outside the Japanese embassy in central Seoul on Wednesday, demanding Japan face up to the truth about its past.

Many Koreans are still bitter about Japan's harsh colonial rule of Korea for 35 years from 1910.

And the announcement by Japan's education ministry stating that its teaching materials for middle and high school students would claim disputed islets, called Dokdo by South Korea and Takeshima in Japan, as part of Japanese territory angered the Koreans further.

The South Korean government has condemned Japan's move and demanded the Japanese ministry withdraw the revised teachers' manuals.

Seoul also called in the Japanese ambassador and warned of "reciprocal countermeasures" if the changes are not withdrawn immediately.

But South Korea has not stated what the countermeasures would be.

Relations between the two countries have been at one of their worst levels in recent years.

The leaders of South Korea and Japan have not yet met, although both of them have been in office for about a year, mainly due to Japan's stance on its historical recognition issues.

But some of South Korea's actions have also raised diplomatic tensions in the past.

In one instance, in 2012, former president Lee Myung-bak became the first head of state to fly to the Dokdo islands, angering Japan.

The islands are small but they lie in fishing grounds believed to contain large gas deposits.

A Korean couple live on the island where South Korea has stationed a small coastguard since 1954.

- CNA/ir