Sunday May 27, 2012

China criticizes 2 Japanese assemblymen for landing on disputed island

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    OssanAmerica

    Oh give it up China. They landed on Japanese territory. Spend your time and energy on repairing your image over hte Nobel prize.

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    tian4670

    Then you must feel very comfortable when Russian prime minister spent a holiday on 'Northern' islands, now belongs to Russia.

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    amerijap

    On Friday, two members of the municipal assembly of Ishigaki, Okinawa Prefecture, landed on Minami Kojima, one of the islands, on a trip that might have violated a law by entering an off-limits area.

    Did they get permission from the government for their trip?

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    sarahsuz25

    The Japanese central government has leased part of the islands from Japanese landowners and prohibits people from landing on them.

    This is the most troubling part--what's to stop these landowners from turning around and leasing the islands to China?

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    OssanAmerica

    tian4670 at 07:58 AM JST - 11th December Then you must feel very comfortable when Russian prime minister spent a >holiday on 'Northern' islands, now belongs to Russia.

    The United States, United Kingdom, the European Parliament considers the four islands Japanese territory under Russian management.

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    YuriOtani

    sarahsuz25, well for some reason the central government wants these islands to be empty. The landowners are being forced to lease the land to the government now just like the landowners on Okinawa.

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    tian4670

    Not everybody on earth want to call US their big brother. Particularly those with spine.

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    tian4670

    OssanAmerica: Those islands are rewards for Russian to start wars against Japan, promised my US. Russian fulfilled its part, so they keep those islands.

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    kwatt

    It is very natural that Japanese should land on the islands or walk around there for hours as these belong to Japan's territory. What seems to be wrong? Nothing!

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    Kwaabish

    Why doesn't China stop interfering in Japan's "internal affairs"? (Tell me if you've heard that line before...)

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    kyushujoe

    It is very natural that Japanese should land on the islands or walk around there for hours

    Do you really, really believe that its natural to land on a remote island and wander around it for hours? How often do you do it?

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    NuckinFutz

    "traces of things associated with Japanese people who once lived there"? So they video'd the trash washed up all over the beaches huh? There's Japanese trash on beaches all over the Pacific, that doesn't prove ownership!

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    bee2005

    Bomb the islands into 2 parts and problem's solved.Said easy than done...

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    toguro

    Is there anything China doesn't WHINE about?

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    OssanAmerica

    tian4670 at 09:23 AM JST - 11th December OssanAmerica: Those islands are rewards for Russian to start wars >against Japan, promised my US. Russian fulfilled its part, so they keep >those islands.

    No you're very much mistaken. The United States had objected to the Soviets occupying them in 1951 at the time of the Washington Treaty. Recommend you study some history before commenting.

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    iWorld

    These two irresponsible assemblymen have started a chain reaction. In the future, when push comes to shove, the japanese will probably go crying to their american masters.

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    PT24881

    Naive act

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    MeLikeJapan

    What's wrong with landing there? Maybe they went there for a vacation.

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    tian4670

    OssanAmerica : I am very sorry to tell you that the agreement had been signed ~10 years (early 1940s) before US objection in 1951.

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