The video lays out Japan’s version of history, claiming sovereignty over the Islands in languages including Japanese, Chinese, English and French.
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China has repeatedly stressed that the Diaoyu Islands are an inherent part of Chinese territory.
- Japan's Foreign Ministry plans to spend nearly 10 million U.S. dollars next year promoting its claims over island disputes with South Korea, China and Russia.
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Japan aims to register 280 remote islands as national assets....
ReplyDelete(Reuters) - Japan is set to clarify the ownership of 280 remote islands within its territorial waters and register them as national assets, a move that could rile China and South Korea, currently engaged in territorial disputes with Tokyo.
The move for the government to survey the islands and claim those with no apparent owners was announced this week and continues a plan first begun five years ago, an official at the Oceanic Policy and Territorial Issues secretariat said.
"Basically the idea is to register these islands as national assets," the official added.
He said the location of the islands remained unclear until the survey was completed, but they were all within Japanese territorial waters and the boundaries of the country's exclusive economic zone (EEZ) would not change.
Since the plan kicked off, Japan has nationalised some 99 remote islands with no apparent owner. That figure is separate from the number now targeted for survey.
Ties between Japan and China have been strained due to a simmering row over ownership of a group of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea, while Japan and South Korea are locked in a territorial row over a different set of islands.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's December 26 visit to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, where Japanese leaders convicted as war criminals are enshrined along with war dead, infuriated China and South Korea and stoked concern from the United States, a key ally.
(Reporting by Elaine Lies; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/09/us-japan-islands-idUSBREA0804L20140109?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews
9/1/14
Japan revises teaching manuals, says islands its territory....
ReplyDelete(Reuters) - Japan said on Tuesday it was revising teaching manuals to make clear that two sets of remote islands at the center of disputes with China and South Korea are integral parts of its territory, prompting protests from an angry Seoul and Beijing.
Japan's ties with the two countries are increasingly strained over a host of issues, including the territorial rows and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit late last year to the Yasukuni Shrine, where convicted war criminals are honored along with millions of war dead.
The conservative Abe has said he wants to revise Japanese history to have a less apologetic tone, a sensitive topic for Asian neighbors such as South Korea and China, where memories linger of Japanese aggression before and during World War Two.
Education Minister Hakubun Shimomura said the ministry was revising the manuals to teach "properly" about Japanese history and that it would make diplomatic efforts to explain the move to Japan's neighbors.
"It is extremely important that the children who will bear our future can properly understand our territory," he told a news conference.
He said the teaching manuals would be changed to make clear that the rocky islets controlled by South Korea but claimed by both nations, known as Takeshima in Japan and Dokdo in South Korea, were Japanese territory.
South Korea's Foreign Ministry promptly summoned the Japanese ambassador to protest.
Earlier, the Ministry urged Japan to repeal the changes, which it said were teaching children a false claim to the islets.
"Our government strongly condemns this and asks Japan to immediately withdraw it," it said in a statement.
The manuals will also add reference to the Senkakus, at the center of a dispute with China, which calls them the Diaoyus, and reiterate Tokyo's stance that these are an integral part of Japanese territory and there is no dispute over their ownership.
China has also lodged a protest, saying the islands have always been Chinese, said Hua Chunying, spokeswoman of the Chinese Foreign Ministry................http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/28/us-japan-textbooks-islands-idUSBREA0R08620140128?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews
28/1/14
Commentary: Japan's trick in history education risks generations of confrontation...
ReplyDeleteTOKYO, Jan. 28 (Xinhua) -- Local media reported Tuesday that the Japanese education ministry will revise its teaching manuals, in which the Diaoyu Islands -- an integral part of Chinese territories, will be described as "Japan's integral parts."
The fact-twisting manuals for junior and senior schools will confuse Japanese students about what the true history is, risking breeding generations of confrontation.
Japan's rightists have for long attempted to whitewash Japan's wartime past through revising textbook, which has outraged its Asian neighbors that suffered Japanese brutal wartime aggression.
The new provocative act in the education area, furthermore, has proved that impacts of the right-leaning Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's administration has touched the country's social level, especially after the wrong words on "comfort women" by Japan's public broadcaster NHK's new boss on Saturday.
Abe boasted he upheld a doctrine of "active pacifism," but his doings pointed to the opposite...................http://english.cntv.cn/20140128/103680.shtml
28/1/14
S Korea protests Japan teaching on island dispute....
ReplyDeleteSEOUL: South Korea called in the Japanese ambassador to Seoul on Tuesday to lodge a formal protest over school teaching manual revisions bolstering Tokyo's claim to a set of disputed tiny islets.
In a separate statement, the foreign ministry threatened unspecified "reciprocal countermeasures" if the revisions are not withdrawn immediately.
The Dokdo islands, known as Takeshima in Japan, are controlled by South Korea but claimed by both countries.
The Japanese education ministry has instructed teachers in junior and senior high schools to use amended manuals stating that the islands belong unequivocally to Japan.
The revisions apply both to the Dokdo/Takeshima dispute and to another set of islands whose sovereignty Japan disputes with China.............http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/s-korea-protests-japan/970940.html
28/1/14
S. Korea expresses strong regret over Japan's territorial claim on disputed islets....
ReplyDeleteSEOUL, April 4 (Xinhua) -- South Korean government on Friday expressed strong regret over Japan's territorial claim on the disputed islets known as Dokdo in South Korea, and Takeshima in Japan in Tokyo's newly-released Diplomatic Bluebook for 2014.
Japan's repeated claims to Dokdo shows that the country never gets rid of its history of imperialist invasions, the ministry said in a statement, adding Japanese government must clearly notice that this move will not only damage bilateral ties, but also impair peace and stability in Northeast Asia.
The Diplomatic Bluebook for 2014, a latest version of Japan's foreign policy guidelines, has been released early on Friday. It identified the disputed islets as Japanese territory, pledging to push on resolving the territory issue through international law.
South Korea also condemned Japan's approval of revised local elementary school textbooks, which contain more "provocative" description of Japan's territorial claim to the disputed islets.
Seoul's foreign ministry is considering to call in Japanese Ambassador to South Korea Koro Bessho to the ministry headquarters Friday afternoon to protest against Japan's territorial claims.
Ties between Seoul and Tokyo have been strained since Abe returned to power in December 2012. Abe infuriated its Asian neighbors by visiting the notorious Yasukuni Shrine in December 2013, as it honors 14 convicted class-A war criminals during World War II.
South Korea summoned the Japanese ambassador Friday over what it saw as a fresh move by Japan to stake its claim to a disputed set of tiny islets and a plan to promote its stance in school textbooks.......
ReplyDeleteThe foreign ministry summoned Japanese Ambassador Koro Bessho to formally convey its protest over a section in Japan's newly-released foreign policy report "Diplomatic Bluebook 2014".
The report, drafted every year by the Japanese foreign ministry, identified the disputed islets -- known as Dokdo in Korean and Takeshima in Japanese -- as Japanese territory.
It also vowed intensified efforts to have the dispute over the South Korean-controlled islets settled by international law.
"Our government expresses strong regret at Japan's outrageous claim on our indigenous territory, Dokdo," Seoul's foreign ministry said in a statement.