(Great are Japan, the Japanese Navy, and Japanese Sailors for Pax Japanesque!)


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http://turbulent.seesaa.net/article/14523894.html




http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/senkaku-maps.htm


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Inside the Ring
By Bill Gertz
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The Washington Times
5:56 p.m., Wednesday, September 15, 2010

China-Japan tensions

U.S. officials are monitoring rising tensions between China and Japan over Japan's detention of a Chinese fishing boat captain who is accused of ramming his boat into two Japanese patrol boats near the Senkaku islands north of Taiwan and south of Okinawa.

The islands have been Japanese territory for decades and were even recognized as such in China's Communist Party People's Daily many years ago.

But since 1970, China — based on growing nationalist sentiment — publicly laid claim to the island chain, which Beijing calls the Diaoyu. Taiwan also claims the islands, further complicating the territorial dispute.

Inside the Ring has obtained a classified Chinese map that is likely to further muddy Beijing's territorial claims. The 1969 map, produced by the People's Republic of China map authority and labeled "confidential," lists the islands as "Senkaku," the Japanese name, and contains a dividing line south of the islands indicating that they fall within Japanese territory....

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/sep/15/inside-the-ring-145889960/
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