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| Hundreds in Tokyo Rally against China | |
| 2012-09-23 | |
| [An Nahar] Hundreds of Japanese on Saturday rallied against Beijing over an escalating island row, days after anti-Japanese protests saw shops and factories vandalized in China. Some 800 demonstrators waved national flags as they marched through downtown Tokyo, denouncing Beijing as a "brute state" and "fascist". Protesters marched through the Roppongi entertainment district, near the Chinese embassy, shouting: "We will never give in to China's military threat!" They criticized the sometimes-violent anti-Japan demonstrations which saw tens of thousands march across China last week, forcing firms to close or scale back production. "We get excited sometimes, but we don't loot shops like those in China, where the demonstrations deviated from their original intentions," said Shuhei Takagi, 21, clad in a camouflage uniform.
Asia's two largest economies have wrangled about the islands since the 1970s, but the row flared in August after pro-China activists landed on one of them. Tensions escalated dramatically after the Japanese government bought three of them from their private owners. Japan's coastguard said Saturday it was monitoring seven Chinese ships in waters near to the chain. There had been 14 in the area on Wednesday. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 New York Times getting in on the act. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2012-09-23 11:06 |
| #3 You think the boards and chairmen of major Japanese technology and export firms are having second thoughts about outsourcing their production to China? If Bernanke keeps creating magical money without backing, soon American labor will be as cheap as Chinese. However, like the Chinese workers, the Americans won't be able to buy those products either. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2012-09-23 09:06 |
| #2 Gimme 2 points and Japan. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2012-09-23 08:39 |
| #1 See also CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > EX-JAPANESE SENIOR POLITICIAN APOLOGIZES TO CHINA. Ex-Chief Cabinet Secretary, MP, + ex-SecGen of the LDP Hiromu Nonaka, whom is well-known for favoring SINo-Japanese friendship. * SAME > CHINA DELAYS APPROVAL OF [JAPANESE] WORKING VISAS, FIRMS MADE TO WAIT AS BEIJING RETALIATES AMID SENKAKUS FLARE-UP. * SAME > POSTER THREAD-IMAGE: PLAN TYPE 054A NEAR DIAOYU ISLANDS. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-09-23 03:33 |