Japan warns China against 'attacks' in island spat

[anilindia]

UNITED NATIONS, Sept 27 (AFP): Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda insisted Wednesday there could be no compromise with China on the ownership of a disputed island chain and denounced attacks on Japanese interests.

Speaking to reporters at the UN General Assembly in New York, Noda said China misunderstands the issues at stake and demanded an end to threats against Japanese citizens and business interests in China by nationalist protesters.

"So far as the Senkaku islands are concerned, they are an integral part of our territory in the light of history and of international law," Noda said, referring to an archipelago in the East China Sea that China knows as Diaoyu.

"It is very clear and there are no territorial issues as such. Therefore there cannot be any compromise that could mean any setback from this basic position. I have to make that very clear," he told reporters.

"The resolution of this issue should not be by force, but calmly, through reason and with respect for international war."

China's Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi told his Japanese counterpart Koichiro Gemba at the United Nations Tuesday that Japan had been guilty of "severely infringing" its sovereignty, according to Beijing's foreign ministry.

"The Chinese side will by no means tolerate any unilateral action by the Japanese side on the Diaoyu Islands," Yang told Gemba, according to his office.

A Japanese official in New York confirmed to AFP that the talks had been "severe," but noted the two sides had agreed to maintain a dialogue.

The dispute erupted into an angry war of words between Beijing and Tokyo after the Japanese government took the previously privately-held islands into public ownership, but Noda insisted this move had been misinterpreted.

"Part of the Senkaku islands that was held by a private citizen was transferred to governmental possession in order to ensure the stable management of it," he said, according to an official translation.

"It is not a new acquisition. It was held under the private ownership of a Japanese citizen and was a transfer of ownership within Japanese law," he said, adding: "We have explained this to China at length."

"But it seems that China has yet to understand that and, because of that lack of understanding, there has been an attack or acts of violence and destruction against Japanese citizens and property there," he complained.

"And we have conveyed clearly that in any circumstances violence is not to be condoned, and we strongly demanded China accord protection to Japanese citizens and property there," he added.

The attacks on Japanese factories and businesses have ostensibly been carried out spontaneously by patriotic crowds, but such protests are usually tightly policed in China, leading to suspicions of official collusion.

Noda refused to be drawn on whether Japan would demand compensation from China for the damage, but the economic toll of the dispute between two of the world's biggest trading partners is mounting daily.

Shortly before the Japanese premier spoke, Japanese airline All Nippon Airways (ANA) revealed that 40,000 reservations had been canceled on its Japan-China flights until November.

And Japanese auto giants Toyota and Nissan said they would cut production in China because demand for Japanese cars has been hit by the row

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[AntoniSerbia]

Our PLAN behaves like a chicken cos we know our navy ain't a match with the JSDF.

 

[anon45]

Our PLAN behaves like a chicken cos we know our navy ain't a match with the JSDF.

I sincerely hope that isn't the only reason China isn't starting a war over this, because that would imply that China is a warmonger.

Much like that phrase 'hiding your claws' or some such attributed to Deng when used in the military sense. It implies China will make war at some time in the future to 'right' a perceived 'wrong'. Basically it implies starting WW3.

 

[ahfatzia]

China tells UN Japan 'stole' disputed islands


UNITED NATIONS/BEIJING -- China's Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi sparked angry exchanges with Japanese diplomats at the United Nations by accusing Japan of stealing disputed islands.

Chinese and Japanese envoys staged a series of attacks during Thursday's session after Yang heightened tensions over the East China Sea islands and reopened old diplomatic wounds over World War II.

The Japanese government's purchase of the uninhabited islands from a private owner this month has infuriated Beijing and set off violent protests in several Chinese cities.

“China strongly urges Japan to immediately stop all activities that violate China's territorial sovereignty, take concrete actions to correct its mistakes and return to the track of resolving the dispute through negotiation,” Yang told the U.N. assembly.

China has demanded the return of the uninhabited islands, known as the Diaoyus in Chinese and the Senkakus in Japanese, for decades. Taiwan also claims the islands.

Yang reaffirmed his country's historical claim that Japan tricked China into signing a treaty ceding the islands in 1895. Japan states that the islands were legally incorporated into its territory.

“The moves taken by Japan are totally illegal and invalid. They can in no way change the historical fact that Japan stole Diaoyu and its affiliated islands from China and the fact that China has territorial sovereignty over them,” said the Chinese minister.

Japan's move was in “outright denial” of its defeat in World War II, he added, reaffirming China's repeated references to the 1939-45 war.

In Tokyo Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary, Osamu Fujimura, told reporters Yang's remarks were “totally groundless.”

“It is important for the two countries to calmly act with each other from a broad perspective, while fostering and maintaining communication,” he said.

Yang and Japan's Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba held stern talks on the dispute in New York on Tuesday, and Yang's speech sparked sharp exchanges between Japanese and Chinese diplomats as each sought a right of reply.

Insisting that Japan legally incorporated the islands into its territory in 1895, Japan's deputy U.N. Ambassador Kazuo Kodama said that “an assertion that Japan took the islands from China cannot logically stand.”

Kodama added that the references to World War II were “unconvincing and unproductive.”

Japan restated Tokyo's position that no sovereignty dispute exists and that Japan began surveying the islands a decade before deciding to incorporate them in 1895, and there exists no evidence that the islands belonged to China.

“It has only been since the 1970s that the government of China and the Taiwanese authorities began making their assertions on territorial sovereignty over the Senkaku Islands,” said Kazuo Kodama, Japan's deputy U.N. ambassador.

“Before then they did not express any objections.”

China's U.N. envoy Li Baodong responded that “the Japanese delegate once again brazenly distorted history, resorting to spurious fallacious arguments that defy all reason and logic to justify their aggression of Chinese territory.”

“The Japanese government still clings to its obsolete colonial mindset,” Li added. “China is capable of safeguarding the integrity of its territory,” the ambassador warned.

When Kodama responded that the islands “are clearly an inherent territory of Japan,” Li returned to the attack. He said his Japanese counterpart “feels no guilt for Japan's history of aggression and colonialism.”

The Japanese government's purchase of the islands is based purely on “the logic of robbers,” he stormed.

Continuing the barrage of rhetoric on Friday, Assistant Foreign Minister Le Yucheng told a forum in Beijing o n the 40th anniversary of China-Japan diplomatic ties that the island purchase decision was “like lobbing an atom bomb at China.”

“If Japan continues to act erroneously despite advice to the contrary and keeps going down the wrong path, then Sino-Japanese relations could sink like the Titanic,” Le said, according to a transcript of his remarks carried on the ministry's website.

Bullet Sent to Chinese Embassy in Japan

The Chinese Embassy in Tokyo has received a bullet in the post, with the sender giving their name as the Japanese prime minister, police and reports said Friday, amid a festering territorial row.

An envelope containing the rifle bullet arrived at the embassy on Thursday morning, Jiji Press said.

A spokeswoman at the prime minister's office said only that the premier had not sent the bullet, without elaborating on any action it might take.

Noting that the sender's name written on the envelope was “Yoshihiko Noda,” embassy officials took it to police, Jiji said, citing investigative sources.

There was no letter included.

Mainland tells UN Japan 'stole' disputed islands - The China Post

 

[sword1947]

If we decide to fight against Japs, that means we have activated all of nuclear weapons and wait for the US to join this "game". I wish that day will not come so soon.

If we decide to fight against Japs, that means we have activated all of nuclear weapons and wait for the US to join this "game". I wish that day will not come so soon.

 

[Raje amar]

If we decide to fight against Japs, that means we have activated all of nuclear weapons and wait for the US to join this "game". I wish that day will not come so soon.

If we decide to fight against Japs, that means we have activated all of nuclear weapons and wait for the US to join this "game". I wish that day will not come so soon.

are you realy a Chinese living in China????????????

because if its true......... you might get in serious trouble......

 

[lkozhi]

japan needs land as it is an island. It has to come in to shanghai. Japan's current military level is not appropriate but they will create enough incidents to allow military build up. Till now china is falling headlong in to japananese plans.