Thursday, April 17, 2014

U.S. reluctant to specify "Senkakus" in Obama-Abe statement.

The United States is reluctant to mention islets at the center of a dispute between Japan and China in the statement released after next week's summit, a person familiar with Tokyo-Washington ties said Wednesday.

The Japanese government proposed releasing a leaders' statement which says the United States must defend the Japan-administered Senkaku islets in the East China Sea, which are claimed by China, the source said.



The U.S. administration of President Barack Obama has said the Senkakus are covered by the 1960 bilateral security treaty with Japan, which obliges the United States to defend Japanese territory if attacked.

[kyodonews.jp]
17/4/14
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  1. Japan is sending 100 soldiers and radar to its westernmost outpost, a tropical island off Taiwan, in a deployment that risks angering China with ties between Asia's biggest economies already hurt by a dispute over nearby islands they both claim.....

    Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera will break ground on Saturday for a military lookout station on Yonaguni, which is home to 1,500 people and just 150 km from the disputed Japanese-held islands claimed by China, Reuters reports.

    The mini-militarization of Yonaguni - now defended by two police officers - is part of a longstanding plan to improve defense and surveillance in Japan's far-flung frontier.

    Building the radar base on the island, which is much closer to China than to Japan's main islands, could extend Japanese monitoring to the Chinese mainland and track Chinese ships and aircraft circling the disputed crags, called the Senkaku by Japan and the Diaoyu by China.

    "We decided to deploy a Ground Self-Defense Force unit on Yonaguni Island as a part of our effort to strengthen the surveillance over the southwestern region," Onodera said this week. "We are staunchly determined to protect Yonaguni Island, a part of the precious Japanese territory.".......Read more: http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_04_18/Japan-to-arm-remote-western-island-risking-more-China-tension-5850/
    18/4/14

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    1. Japón desplegará tropas y radares en su isla más occidental, que se encuentra a 108 kilómetros al este de Taiwán, lo que puede extender significativamente la vigilancia japonesa a la parte continental de China....

      En un movimiento que amenaza con revertir los recientes signos de un deshielo creciente en las relaciones entre China y Japón, Tokio ha abierto un nuevo puesto de vigilancia militar en Yonaguni, la isla más occidental habitada de Japón, informa Reuters.

      En Yonaguni —que tiene una población de alrededor de 1.500 personas y se encuentra a 150 kilómetros al sur de las Senkaku/Diaoyu, las islas en disputa con China— la presencia militar japonesa se ampliará de dos agentes de la Policía a 100 militares y un puesto avanzado de radar.

      La base se construirá en 25 hectáreas de tierras arrendadas al Ministerio de Defensa. A cambio, el Gobierno local recibirá alrededor de 15 millones de yenes (150.000 dólares) en concepto de alquiler cada año. La construcción comenzará con la ceremonia de inauguración este sábado, y se espera que esté terminada a finales del año fiscal 2015.

      El ministro de Defensa japonés, Itsunori Onodera, dijo en una conferencia de prensa este martes que Japón "está decidido a desplegar una Fuerza Autodefensiva Terrestre (GSDF, por sus siglas en inglés) en la isla de Yonaguni como parte de nuestro esfuerzo para fortalecer la vigilancia de la región suroeste".......Texto completo en: http://actualidad.rt.com/actualidad/view/125777-japon-tropas-islas-disputa-china-ejercito?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=actualidad
      19/4/14

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