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Japan demands China pull back boats
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TOKYO (AFP) - – Japan demanded Monday that China pull back two fisheries patrol boats from near a disputed island chain that is at the centre of the worst diplomatic row in years between the Asian giants.
Tokyo also summoned Beijing's ambassador to demand regular consular access to four Japanese nationals whom China detained amid the ugly spat a week ago for allegedly filming a military facility.
The latest developments came days after Japan freed a Chinese fishing boat captain, a move which failed to ease the escalating conflict and drew only a demand for an apology from its traditional Asian rival.
The dispute started when Japan's coastguard on September 8 arrested the skipper on suspicion that he had intentionally rammed and damaged two of its patrol vessels in a chase near the disputed islands.
Amid the rising bad blood, Japan's top government spokesman, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshito Sengoku, earlier on Monday said Tokyo would ask Beijing to pay for the damage to the coastguard boats.
The communist government of China, where the incident has sparked a strong nationalistic response, has called the skipper's arrest invalid and illegal, arguing that the islands have been part of China since ancient times.
The islets, known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, lie in an area between Japan's far-southern Okinawa island and Taiwan that has rich fishing grounds and is believed to contain oil and gas reserves.
On Monday afternoon, Sengoku said fresh trouble was brewing in the area.
Two Chinese vessels, he said, "are nearing the waters around the Senkaku islands but have not entered Japanese territorial waters, as coastguard vessels are on guard against their entry".
Japan had already asked China four times to withdraw the ships from near the islands, he told a regular news conference.
An official with the China Fisheries Law Enforcement Command told AFP that two ships had set sail last Thursday for the area. China's foreign ministry had no immediate comment on Japan's demand for them to leave.
With relations between the Asian giants at their worst level in years, Japan on Monday again urged its neighbour to do its part to repair ties.
"Right now, the ball is in China's court," Sengoku, the right-hand man to Prime Minister Naoto Kan, said Monday morning, stressing the need for healthy ties between the world's second and third biggest economies.
Beijing has launched a tirade of diplomatic protests, snubs and threats and, industry sources say, halted crucial rare earth mineral exports to Japan. Related article: China toughens customs clearance for Japan shipments
China was Monday still holding the four Japanese nationals -- employees of a company working on a bid to clean up wartime-era Japanese chemical weapons -- after detaining them last week for allegedly filming a military installation.
Japan's Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara on Monday summoned the Chinese ambassador, Cheng Yonghua, to demand regular access to the four.
"Minister Maehara asked for continuous meetings with the four Japanese as well as a swift handling of the case," the ministry said in a statement, adding that the ambassador had said he would relay the message to Beijing.
As the dispute has escalated, Washington -- which openly worries about China's growing military muscle -- has been quick to reaffirm its commitment to a half-century-old security alliance with fellow democracy Japan.
The United States, long the dominant military power in the Pacific, has also voiced support for Southeast Asian nations that have had their own territorial rows with the regional giant China.
Sengoku, asked how Japan would deal with China's new assertiveness in the East China Sea, told reporters: "It is all about how China realises its peaceful rise in international politics."
He stressed that both sides need to strengthen what they call their mutually beneficial relationship based on common strategic interests.
Japan's centre-left government has come under pressure at home for caving in to Chinese demands when it freed the trawler captain, a decision the government insists was made independently by prosecutors.
A dozen parliamentarians of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, led by lawmaker Jin Matsubara, on Monday criticised the captain's release and proposed that Japan consider stationing troops on the disputed islands.
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