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A Chinese fishing boat is inspected by Japan Coast Guard crew members after it collided with two Japanese coast guard vessels near the disputed islands in the East China Sea, known as the Senkaku isles in Japan and Diaoyu in China, September 7, 2010.
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By Yoko Kubota and Chisa Fujioka
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Fri Sep 24, 2010 2:39am EDT
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan on Friday was set to release a Chinese trawler captain at the heart of a intense territorial row with China that Tokyo had warned was threatening to damage Asia's two biggest economies.
A prosecutor from Japan's southern Okinawa island said they had decided to free the Chinese fishing boat captain, whose trawler collided this month with two Japanese patrol boats in waters near islands both sides claim, sparking a bitter row.
The decision reflected consideration for Sino-Japanese ties, the prosecutor told a news conference, parts of which were broadcast on Japanese TV. Japanese media said it had not been decided yet whether he would still be charged.
"The Chinese government will welcome this," said Liu Jiangyong, an expert on Japan at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
"I think this will be a turning point, a symbolic step, that will now ease the tensions that have risen between China and Japan."
Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda warned earlier that worsening ties between the two countries would be bad for both economies.
"A cooling of relations between Japan and China over the Senkaku problem would be bad for Japan's economy, but it would also be a minus for China," he told a news conference. "It's desirable that both sides respond in a calm manner."
Sino-Japanese ties had improved after a deep chill in 2001-2006, but the latest feud underscored the fragility of relations long plagued by disputes over wartime history and rivalry over territory, resources and mutual military suspicions.
Japan's sluggish economy has become increasingly reliant on China's dynamism for growth. China has been Japan's biggest trading partner since 2009 and bilateral trade reached 12.6 trillion yen ($147 billion) in the January-June period, a jump of 34.5 percent over the same time last year, Japanese data show.
"The Japanese economy's future performance seems to depend on whether the problem is solved quickly," Japanese Economics Minister Banri Kaieda told a news conference.
China has canceled diplomatic meetings and student visits to protest against the trawler captain's detention, and concerns are simmering that Beijing is holding back shipments of rare earth minerals vital for electronics goods and auto parts.
RIVALRY OVER RESOURCES, TERRITORY
Trade Minister Akihiro Ohata told a separate news conference that Tokyo had confirmed there was no official export ban on rare earth minerals, but added that the ministry was still looking into the matter after hearing from traders that exports had been suspended.
Analysts said the trawler dispute was in part a row over sovereignty in an area with rich natural gas resources. The islands are known as the Diaoyu islands in China and the Senkaku island in Japan. The deadline for Japanese prosecutors to decide whether to charge the trawler captain is September 29.
Beijing also has territorial disputes with southeast Asian nations in the South China Sea, where Washington has come out in favor of a multilateral approach, raising China's hackles.
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Sep 24, 2010 2:18am EDT
Hasn’t anyone got the picture yet? Either confront China Incs bully boy tactics and control of essential inputs to Western economies or become their subservient whipping boys.
Push the US and Japanese fleets into the disputed area and tell China to pull its head in or else because that is what China Inc are telling the rest of us – do what China Inc says or we will send in the military.
Call China Incs bluff by insisting critical inputs to Western economies are not produced in China and available only on the basis of being obedient to China Incs wishes. Tell China Inc by positioning the fleets resolution of geographic claims are not going to be based simply on what China Inc wants.
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