Chine Japon Frontière Senkaku
China stirs anti-Japanese protests over disputed islands
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By John Chan
20 August 2012
Tensions between China and Japan are again heating up after 14 pro-Chinese activists from Hong Kong were arrested last week by Japanese police when they attempted to land on the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands (known as Diaoyu in China) in the East China Sea. Both countries, as well as Taiwan, claim the islets.
The immediate standoff ended on Friday after Japan released the protesters, who included two reporters from the pro-Beijing Phoenix channel in Hong Kong. Yesterday, however, anti-Japanese protests flared in a number of Chinese cities after Japanese nationalists swam ashore from boats to land, with Japanese flags, on one of the disputed islands, Uotori. The right-wing activists had earlier been denied permission by Japanese authorities to visit the islands.