The realistic solution to the islands dispute between Japan and China

Posted by on Sep 19, 2012 in blog | 0 comments http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120915a3.html Nothing but bad news here in this Japan Times article: this collection of Prime Ministerial hopefuls in the upcoming LDP Party presidential election, which includes Nobuteru Ishihara, son of  the hardline nationalist and controversial Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara, are all, if you read between the lines, talking about revising the...
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Japanese nationalist view of islands dispute with China lacks ‘emotional intelligence’

Posted by on Sep 19, 2012 in blog | 0 comments       http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_574935&feature=iv&src_vid=05x4iciT_z8&v=gnlr_OBN2uw A summary of Japanese arguments for why China  has no claim to the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands. Note the use (or rather, abuse) of music by Anton Bruckner! You’ll see here why nationalistically-minded Japanese are trying to use uncontextualised legalistic...
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Perspicacious Chinese View of the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands Dispute

Posted by on Sep 19, 2012 in blog | 0 comments     This Chinese view seems pretty perspicacious to me. The factor it omits to mention is the American angle in the background. Every time over the past 20 years that either Japan (e.g. under the Hatoyama and Kan governments 2010) or S.Korea have made efforts to develop better relations with China, some fracas has suddenly developed to throw the development off track, and behind...
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The China-Japan Dispute over the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands

Posted by on Sep 19, 2012 in blog | 0 comments   I think a key in all this is the links between Governor of Tokyo Shintaro Ishihara and US rightwing circles. All the rapid escalation that is happening now, is the result of Ishihara’s speech at the Heritage Foundation in April 2012 where he first floated his idea of buying the islands for Tokyo. http://www.japanfocus.org/-Gavan-McCormack/3821 Troubled Seas: Japan’s Pacific and...
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SHINTARO ISHIHARA – A DANGEROUS INCENDIARY in the JAPAN-CHINA ISLANDS DISPUTE

Posted by on Sep 19, 2012 in blog | 0 comments     If we look back to March 2010 we see a much more hopeful scenario developing between Japan and China. Clearly, this was not perceived to be in the interests of rightwing forces in the Anglosphere (‘Anglo-sfear’)   So a certain question emerges, looking very similar to scaremongering arguments in the West over 100 years ago about whether Germany was trying to “drive a...
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