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SENKAKUS

JAPAN / Politics
Feb 22, 2013
Senkaku showdown taxing forces
The past few months have put the Japan Coast Guard and Air Self-Defense Force to the test, as they defend the nation’s territorial waters and airspace around the Senkaku islets in the East China Sea, a flash point for potential military clashes with China.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 14, 2013
The message Asians hope Abe will say to Obama
Neither Japan nor China can give up its claims to the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands, but stoking up conflict in today’s world economy would hurt them both.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 13, 2013
Japan as a normal country
The U.S. should reject the notion of preparing for war in the Pacific, and let Japan and its neighbors cooperate to counter Beijing’s geopolitical ambitions.
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 9, 2013
Beijing denies MSDF target-lock
A war of words flares between Japan and China over fire-control radar lock-ons by Chinese warships against a Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer and chopper near the Senkakus.
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 8, 2013
China provocation slammed
Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera warns China that it may have violated the United Nations Charter when its warships locked their fire-control radars on a Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer and helicopter last month and calls for setting up a hotline between Tokyo and Beijing.
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 6, 2013
Chinese target-locked MSDF ship, chopper
Chinese warships directed their fire-control radar on a Japanese destroyer and a helicopter last month in the East China Sea, the Defense Ministry says.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 3, 2013
Coast guard arrests Chinese skipper for illegally fishing in Japan’s EEZ
The coast guard arrested the captain of a Chinese boat Saturday on suspicion of illegally fishing for coral in Japan’s exclusive economic zone near Miyako Island, Okinawa Prefecture.
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 2, 2013
Abe continues gambit denying row exists over Senkakus
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reiterated Japan’s stance Friday that there is no territorial dispute with China that needs to be resolved, a comment likely to trigger further anger in Beijing.
JAPAN
Jan 25, 2013
ASDF jets scrambled 160 times against China planes between April, December
In the nine months, ASDF fighter jets were scrambled 349 times in total, up 14 from the same period in fiscal 2011, says the ministry’s Joint Staff Office.
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Jan 8, 2013
Xenophobia finds fertile soil in web anonymity
As diplomatic strains with China and South Korea worsen over territorial disputes, more and more Japanese are using the relative anonymity of cyberspace to vent their political spleens online.
JAPAN
Nov 7, 2012
Beijing’s Senkaku goal: Sub ‘safe haven’ in South China Sea
What’s at stake in the smoldering diplomatic crisis with China over the uninhabited Senkaku Islands, which only seem to attract fishing boats and ultranationalists?

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