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A protester holds a banner with the message of ''Boycott Japanese goods'' outside a Uniqlo clothes shop from Japan during an anti-Japan protest over disputed islands called Diaoyu in China and Senkaku in Japan, at Chunxi Road business area in Chengdu October 16, 2010.
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Sun Oct 17, 2010 10:30pm EDT
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's prime minister on Monday urged China to ensure the safety of Japanese citizens and firms and called for calm after Chinese protesters took to the streets over a territorial feud straining ties between Asia's top economies.
Sino-Japanese relations deteriorated sharply last month after Japan detained a Chinese trawler captain whose boat collided with Japanese patrol ships near the disputed islands -- called Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China.
Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan has come under fire domestically for appearing to cave in to Chinese demands to release the captain. On Saturday, thousands marched in Tokyo to assert Japan's claim to the rocky isles, which are near potentially huge oil and gas reserves in the East China Sea.
"Regarding the Chinese protests against Japan on the 16th and 17th, we will tell the Chinese authorities that it is regrettable and ask them to ensure the safety of Japanese nationals and Japanese companies in China," Kan told a parliamentary panel.
"Both sides need to work hard (on the matter) in a calm manner," Kan added. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshito Sengoku said Japan had already conveyed its message to Beijing.
The feud has raised concerns about fallout for business given deep economic ties between the two Asian giants. China replaced the United States as Japan's biggest trade partner last year.
On Sunday, China called on its people to stay within the law in their "understandable" anger at Japan.
An estimated crowd of 2,000 gathered in downtown Chengdu, capital of China's southwestern Sichuan Province, from early afternoon on Saturday, unfurling banners and shouting: "Defend the Diaoyu Islands," "Fight Japan" and other slogans.
In Tokyo on the same day, more than 2,000 protesters marched to the Chinese Embassy, waving flags and chanting in opposition to China's claim to the uninhabited islands.
Sino-Japan ties have long been plagued by China's bitter memories of Tokyo's past military aggression, rivalry over resources and mutual mistrust about military intentions.
But relations had until recently been improving after deep strains sparked major anti-Japan protests in China in 2005.
Japan and China are trying to arrange a formal summit meeting between the two countries' leaders at the end of October on the sidelines of a regional summit in Vietnam.
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Oct 17, 2010 10:41pm EDT
more chinese land grabbing….will it ever end?
china needs to realize that it cannot bully and threaten the world the same way it bullies and threatens its own people.
China_Lies
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Oct 17, 2010 11:09pm EDT
Though China is not so perfect as you may expect,it is improving,moreover,its contribution to the world is quite obvious.Japanese should realize that it’s only a dependent state of China in history.The stepson shouldn’t beat his father. I like you Japanese only because of your humbleness,but for now you should know “a Roland for an Oliver”.
hansteven
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Oct 17, 2010 11:20pm EDT
@hansteven
Your comment illustrates perfectly why the world is nervous about china’s rise. Japan is not a stepson to china! Japan is not a tributary state of a chinese empire! china is not the center of the universe!
china desperately needs to drop this attitude of bullying people into submission. Modern international relations are built upon equal relationships between nations. I STRONGLY encourage you to rethink how you view your countries role in this multi-lateral global community.
The world will not tolerate chinese arrogance and dominion.
China_Lies
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Oct 17, 2010 11:57pm EDT
@China_lies
First of all,i feel very comfortable at your nervous,then i can analyse the situation very closely, the outside world fears about a rising China.But you should also know that what we Chinese get from our weekness–the violation of our country’s territorial integrity and sovereignty.I don’t know if you have ever seen the cultural relics,which belongs to China,in your museum. Have you ever seen the wounds in your grandpa beated by the invadors? Have you ever experiensed the shame of stretch out your hand to the invador but he boxes your ears?
what we do now is up-rising, but peacefully. At the same time, we Chinese will never give your grandson the bad memories, which we have experiensed.
JUST be open-minded, thank you!
hansteven
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Oct 18, 2010 12:12am EDT
@hansteven
Are you serious? Your country is not rising peacefully!!! They are land grabbing from all their neighbors, and are creating nightmares for the countless numbers of “political prisoners” currently being held and tortured in chinese black prisons.
I have cousins who have been taken by your government and locked away in secret prisons. I have friends who have disappeared in china, never to be heard of again. Investigations into his disappearance ended at the desk of one of your government officials who said the case would not be investigated further, because it would implicate government officials in your government. I have studied at the feet of prisoners of your governments cultural revolution and tiananmen masacre.
Don’t tell me I don’t understand china…I understand china FAR MORE than you could ever hope to!
china today is not rising peacefully!!! If china was rising peacefully, then there wouldn’t be so many countries in the world rising up to resist the communist bullying that is beginning to permeate global trade, politics, and diplomacy.
I think you need to start reading more than just the propaganda that is being issued by your government. Then you might begin to understand more clearly the negative impact your country’s “peaceful rise” is having on the world.
China_Lies
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Oct 18, 2010 1:08am EDT
(accidently hit the submit button, continue my comment here)In history, in many different periods China had the dominant power/influence in the region. It had never showed the scale and degree of aggressiveness, brutality, and ambition to expand as Japanese empire had displayed in the early part of the last century. 10s of millions of other asisan civilian had been murdered as the result of that.
Compare to Japan, the diversity of the Chinese Culture was always a handful for its government. It has lack of interest to expand and dominate. Its culture and tradition respects peaceful domestic consolidation, and dispises outward military aggression.
China is getting wealthier and stronger, its simply a reflection of better management on its large population base and abundent domentic resources. On a per capita basis, the living standard is still far behind most of the coutries in the world. To be fair, every single Chinese deserves to live the same quality of life as anyone else in the world based on their own diligence and hard work.
The status quo has been changing and will keep changing until it hits some equilibrium point. Then maybe some people should learn to live with this change, and respect it is only fair but not confusing it with threat.
It is quite boring to figure out who really owns the island. It sits somewhere in the middle of the two countries and no one lives on it! Both country probably all can dig out tones of archilogical evidence of their ownerships.
So, I do not think the Chinese claim of its ownership is anymore of an aggression act as Japan’s. Similar scale of boarder disputes happens everywhere in the world, in every minute. This one is no different to others, do not confuse politics with truth, and rightful change of status quo to aggression and ambitious empire style dominion.
bebegun
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Oct 18, 2010 2:46am EDT
@hansteven “I don’t know if you have ever seen the cultural relics,which belongs to China,in your museum.”
You’re quite typical of the sort of mainland Chinese individual who is incapable of seeing fault in your own government, despite that this same government often harms Chinese citizens’ interests. Case in point, ‘cultural relics.’ You might like to take a good hard look at the record of your own government, which destroyed thousands of ‘cultural relics’ during the 1950s and 1960s, including ancient artwork and temples. If not for a sizable quantity of relics being spirited out of the country to Taiwan, and England, there would be little artwork and relics left. The Communist government’s record regarding willful cultural destruction is little better than the Taliban’s destruction of ancient relics, which they referred to as ’symbols of idolatry.’ Your own gov’t referred to cultural relics variously as ’symbols of superstition’, ’symbols of feudalism’ and many more meaningless phrases, ad nauseum. Now it’s simply politically and economically (hear that cash jingling?) expedient for your gov’t to trumpet these things in order to shore up support among the less-informed, more easily manipulated types, @hansteven.
I find it very curious how people like you, which seem to be a very vocal minority, are incapable of any self-criticism, unlike citizens in more ‘civilized’ nations, who regularly criticize their own gov’ts, often quite severely.
I suspect you’re simply one of the army of bloggers that the CPC pays to type vitriol and silliness on every message board related to a China topic. You should be ashamed of yourself – some of your countrymen risk all, to improve your country, while lackeys like you will parrot anything your gov’t pays you to say for a few coins.
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