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China News
| 9 months ago
Visit to war shrine by Japanese ministers angers Asian neighbors Beijing urged Tokyo on Wednesday to immediately and unconditionally release 14 Chinese nationals held over a landing on islands belonging to China. A protest in support of China's...
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Epoch Times
| 9 months ago
August 15, 2012 Fourteen Hong Kong activists climbed aboard a fishing boat Wednesday and claimed China's sovereignty over uninhabited islands controlled by Japan. After an abortive attempt to set up flags, there were all arrested. Seven from the...
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BBC
| 9 months ago
Thirty people were rescued from rip currents off the Devon coast in the space of a few hours...At one stage a group of four adults and four children were pulled out to sea near rocks at the northern end of the beach. No-one was seriously injured,...
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Japan Times
| 9 months ago
A group of about 20 young Chinese activists staged a demonstration Wednesday in front of the Japanese Embassy in Beijing to protest Japan's control of the Senkaku Islands. Waving Chinese flags, the activists chanted that the islets belong to China.
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Japan Times
| 9 months ago
A day after saying that Emperor Akihito should apologize for Japan's 1910-1945 colonial rule over the Korean Peninsula, South Korean President Lee Myung Bak demanded Wednesday that Tokyo take responsibility for wartime sexual slavery. Lee was...
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Japan Times
| 9 months ago
Until now, South Korean presidents, who are the head of state, had refrained from setting foot on the disputed island...It is inevitable his action will put a damper on bilateral relations. Mr. Lee's Takeshima visit may satisfy nationalistic...
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Japan Times
| 9 months ago
ITO Staff writer Marking the 67th anniversary of the end of World War II, two Cabinet ministers on Wednesday paid what they said was a private visit to war-related Yasukuni Shrine, the first by such high-ranking politicians since the Democratic Party...
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Japan Times
| 9 months ago
The seven activists who landed on the islet of Uotsuri at 5:31 p.m. were met by about 30 Japan Coast Guardsmen, police and immigration authorities who had arrived beforehand. Two of the seven returned to their vessel while the other five were...
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China News
| 9 months ago
China on Wednesday lodged solemn representations to Japan on the later's illegal detention of Chinese nationals on the Diaoyu Islands. Fu Ying, China's vice foreign minister, urgently summoned Japanese Ambassador to China Uichiro Niwa and made a...
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Japan Times
| 9 months ago
Staff writer Tokyo's National Film Center is holding an exhibition tracking the development of the Japanese film company Nikkatsu Corporation, which this year celebrates its centenary. Nikkatsu is probably best known for its production of movies...
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Taiwan News
| 9 months ago
The peace initiative proposed by President Ma in early August called on all parties involved in the territorial dispute to refrain from hostile action, put aside differences, not abandon dialogue, observe international law and resolve the dispute...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 9 months ago
Or should that read ''Takeshima, a collection of barely habitable rocks in the Sea of Japan''?...August 15 - also known in Korea as Independence Day, as it marks the end of the Japanese occupation dating from 1910. Advertisement At issue is...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 9 months ago
Getty Images TWO Japanese cabinet ministers visited a controversial war shrine in Tokyo in a move that may worsen relations with China and South Korea, which have frayed over maritime territorial disputes. The National Public Safety Commission...
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BBC
| 9 months ago
Los Angeles bans sale of medicinal marijuana 15 August 2012 Last updated at 12:37 ET California legalised medical marijuana in 1996 but since then authorities think the use of the drug has spiralled out of control. They are worried that young people...
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Kuwait Times
| 9 months ago
China and South Korea yesterday pressed Japan to face up to its wartime past, as festering territorial disputes flared and Asia marked the anniversary of Tokyo's World War II surrender. Both countries demanded Japan do more to atone for the brutal...
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Voice of America
| 9 months ago
VOA News August 15, 2012 China says it is lodging a formal complaint with Japan after Japanese authorities arrested 14 pro-China activists who landed on an island chain claimed by both countries. Japanese police say the activists arrived on the...
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United Press International
| 9 months ago
Japanese officials confirm a boat carrying activists from Hong Kong has reached waters surrounding a group of disputed islands in the East China sea. The islands, known as the Senkakus in Japan, are controlled by the Japanese but both China and...
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China News
| 9 months ago
Tensions concerning territorial disputes between China and Japan over the Diaoyu Islands have surged to a new high Wednesday, as Japanese authorities flagrantly arrested five activists from Hong Kong who had landed on one of the islands. The tensions...
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United Press International
| 9 months ago
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak urged Japan to resolve tensions over sexual enslavement of South Korean women by Japanese soldiers in World War II. "It was a breach of women's rights committed during wartime as well as a violation of universal...
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Taiwan News
| 9 months ago
Taipei, Aug. 15 (CNA) Taiwan's Coast Guard Administration (CGA) provided food supplies Wednesday to a Hong Kong vessel on its way to the disputed Tiaoyutai Islands in the East China Sea, Premier Sean Chen said.
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Washington Post
| 9 months ago
Shortly after the activists' arrest, China vowed to lodge a formal complaint with Japan. The activists, more than a dozen in all, had set out from Hong Kong for the islands called Diaoyu by the Chinese and Senkaku by Japan. They carried with them...
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The Economic Times
| 9 months ago
China said it would lodge a complaint with Japan after it detained five Chinese activists who landed on a disputed island on Wednesday, as tension between Japan and its neighbours escalated on the anniversary of the end of World War Two. The landing...
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Channel NewsAsia
| 9 months ago
Japan made 14 arrests after pro-China activists landed on an island at the centre of a territorial dispute on Wednesday, in an episode that threatens to further destabilise already fractious relations. Those detained were part of a group who had...
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The Globe & Mail
| 9 months ago
German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends a cabinet meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin, July 18, 2012. The circular reflections are created by the shiny surface of a nearby tea pot. Reuters Market View Economy video We want the world to know that...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 9 months ago
The island chain is in resource-rich waters and has stirred territorial disputes between China and its neighbors. A group of Chinese activists landed on an island chain disputed with Japan on Wednesday, staking their claim of sovereignty despite...
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BBC
| 9 months ago
Four men have been arrested in Germany on suspicion of illegally supplying Iran with parts needed to build a nuclear reactor. The suspects were held following searches of homes and business in Hamburg, Oldenburg and Weimar. They are accused of using...
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Voice of America
| 9 months ago
Government officials in Tokyo and Seoul marking the anniversary of the end of war in the Pacific are aggravating lingering grievances stemming from their colonial past. A children's choir sang as attendees waved South Korean flags to mark the 67th...
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Voice of America
| 9 months ago
Taiwan's vice president is spending an unusually long four days in the United States this month, a move that would once have drawn formal protests from China. Vice President Wu Den-yih stopped in New York for private meetings on his way to visit...
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Voice of America
| 9 months ago
Japan's Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Yuichiro Hata (2nd L) and other lawmakers are led by a Shinto priest after offering prayers to war dead at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, August 15, 2012. August 15, 2012 Two Japanese cabinet...
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China News
| 9 months ago
Seven activists from Hong Kong landed on the Diaoyu Islands at around 5:30 pm local time on Wednesday, according to Japan Coast Guard (JCG). "Japan may detain or arrest the seven activists in the name of crime of illegal entry," a spokesman from...
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Taiwan News
| 9 months ago
Taipei, Aug. 15 (CNA) Opposition Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Lin Chia-lung said Wednesday in Shanghai that Taiwan and China should focus on exchanges in the area of soft power development and city governance experiences, without involving...
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Taiwan News
| 9 months ago
Taipei/Beijing, Aug. 15 (CNA) Activists in Taipei and Beijing launched protests Wednesday against Japan 's territorial claims over the Tiaoyutai Islands and a visit made by Japan ese ministers to honor war dead at the Yasukuni Shrine the same day.
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The Guardian
| 9 months ago
Handout/Reuters Police in Japan say they have arrested five activists who travelled by boat from Hong Kong to a group of Japanese-controlled islands to press China 's claim to the disputed territory. A total of 14 people travelled to the group of...
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Al Jazeera
| 9 months ago
55 Lee has made fresh demands for Japan to take responsibility for past human rights-violations [AFP In a move sure to raise regional tensions, two Japanese cabinet members have visited the Yasukuni shrine to mark the anniversary of the country's...
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The Observer
| 9 months ago
Tension between Japan and its Asian neighbours escalated on Wednesday, the 67th anniversary of the end of the second world war , as South Korea and China both told Tokyo to do much more to resolve lingering bitterness over its past military...
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International Herald Tribune
| 9 months ago
Two Japanese cabinet members paid their respects at a Tokyo war shrine linked to Japan 's militaristic past on Wednesday, marking the first visit by high-ranking officials in three years and coinciding with a recent flare-up in tensions between Japan...
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China News
| 9 months ago
China has urged Japan to keep its promise of facing up to and reflecting on its invasion history, after two Japanese Cabinet ministers visited the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. On Wednesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said: "We hope the...
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Asia Times
| 9 months ago
Taipei and Tokyo have been somewhat overcast during much of the presidency of Taiwan's Ma Ying-jeou, who in his youth as an activist vociferously fought for a set of islets that are controlled by Japan and claimed by Taiwan and mainland China. But in...
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Taiwan News
| 9 months ago
Berlin, Aug. 15 (CNA) President Ma Ying-jeou 's East China Sea Peace Initiative to help resolve the dispute over the Tiaoyutai Islands could be acceptable to the parties involved but needs to be spelled out in more detail, a German expert on Taiwan...
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Taiwan News
| 9 months ago
Wednesday a proposal by some activists that Taipei should cooperate with Beijing in asserting its sovereignty over the disputed Tiaoyutai Islands in the East China Sea. Ministry spokesman Steve Hsia reiterated that the island chain, known as the...
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The Hindustan Times
| 9 months ago
Japan's coastguard stepped up security Wednesday in waters near disputed islands in the East China Sea as a group of pro-Beijing activists sailed towards the chain. "We are on high alert so as to prevent them from entering Japanese territorial waters...
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BBC
| 9 months ago
China warns Japan as activists near disputed islands A spokesman for the Hong Kong-based activists say the boat is being followed as it nears the islands China has warned Japan not to ''endanger safety'' of its citizens as a group of Hong Kong...
