Flying Robots?
Posted on 04/23/2013 5:54:56 PM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe vowed on Tuesday to "expel by force" any attempt by China to land on a disputed island chain after eight state-owned Chinese ships sailed into the territorial waters surrounding the archipelago.
Japan's prime minister Tuesday vowed to "expel by force" any Chinese landing on islands at the centre of a territorial row, after eight government vessels from China sailed into the disputed waters.
The latest clash over the islands came as 168 Japanese lawmakers visited the controversial Yasukuni war shrine in central Tokyo, seen as a potent symbol of Japan's imperialist past, riling its neighbours China and South Korea.
Tokyo summoned the Chinese ambassador to Japan on Tuesday after the eight state-owned Chinese ships sailed into its territorial waters. The flotilla is the biggest to sail into the disputed waters in a single day since Tokyo nationalised part of the archipelago in September.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe vowed to "expel by force" any Chinese landing on the archipelago in the East China Sea.
"We would take decisive action against any attempt to enter territorial waters and to land" on the islands, Shinzo Abe told parliament in response to questions from lawmakers, adding: "We would never allow" a landing.
"It would be natural for us to expel by force if (the Chinese) were to make a landing," he said.
Chinese ships have frequently sailed around the five Tokyo-controlled islands in recent months sparking diplomatic clashes.
The Chinese maritime surveillance ships entered the 12-nautical-mile zone off the islands, which China calls Diaoyu and Japan calls the Senkaku, around 8:00 am (2300 GMT Monday), the Japan Coast Guard said in a statement.
"It is extremely deplorable and unacceptable that Chinese government ships are repeatedly entering Japanese territorial waters," Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said. Map of the disputed islands in the East China Sea
A group of Japanese nationalists said it had sent nine ships to the area around the islands, which are also claimed by Taiwan.
The islands are surrounded by rich fishing grounds and are believed to harbour vast natural resources below the seabed.
In a separate territorial row, relations between Tokyo and South Korea have also been strained by a dispute over a Seoul-controlled chain of islets in the Sea of Japan (East Sea).
Seoul on Monday shelved a proposed trip by Foreign Minister Yun Byung-Se to Tokyo in protest at the trips made over the weekend by Japanese cabinet ministers to the Yasukuni war shrine.
Beijing also protested Monday about the weekend visits to the shrine, which is seen by Japan's Asian neighbours as a symbol of its wartime aggression as it honours 2.5 million war dead, including 14 leading war criminals.
China's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told reporters that Japan must atone for its past behaviour.
"Only by facing up to and repenting for its history of aggression can Japan create the future, and truly develop friendly and cooperative relations with its neighbours," Hua said.
But the protests did not deter more legislators visiting Yasukuni on Tuesday.
Upper house member of parliament Toshiei Mizuochi confirmed that 168 Japanese lawmakers visited the shrine on Tuesday morning -- the annual visit usually draws a far smaller number of legislators.
Suga, who is the Japanese government's top spokesman, brushed off anger over the shrine visits, saying on Tuesday it was a personal matter for lawmakers.
"A visit to the Yasukuni is the matter of beliefs, and Japan ensures freedom of faith," he said.
"Therefore, the government should not interfere with visits if they are made by cabinet members or by parliament members."
Japan's Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso and Keiji Furuya, the chief of the National Public Safety Commission, separately visited the Yasukuni shrine on Sunday.
Internal Affairs Minister Yoshitaka Shindo also visited at the weekend.
Japan's premier did not make a pilgrimage but paid for equipment made of wood and fabric, bearing his name and title, which was used to decorate an altar.
Yeah, right.
People nowadays seem to forget or they apparently never knew that during World War Two, Imperial Japan’s armed services were the al Qaeda of that era.
They though it was the greatest thing in the world to die for their Emperor. We finally found that we had to fight them to win and did so when we showed them that if they all wanted to die for their Emperor, we would accommodate them with atomic weapons.
To defeat al Qaeda and the growing world of Islamic terrorists dead set on killing all of us as a religiously necessary Jihad, we need to fight them the same way and if necessary, use nuclear weapons before they use nuclear weapons on us.
Go Japan, show Red China how the cow chews the curd— Heavens knows our current resident in the White House won’t.
What “force” does Japan have to stop the Chinese incursion?
“What “force” does Japan have to stop the Chinese incursion?”
The Chinese might find that it’s a lot more than a Pokemon military.
The Japanese have got more firepower then folks think . They don’t/can’t advertise it .
China is cruising for a bloody nose with most of it neighbors.
I still say we should stop trade with it dead in it’s tracks.
We’ll see just how successful China is with no traders from around the planet.
The second most powerful navy in the world. Please pay attention.
Something tells me now is not the time for Japan to start to practice its ancient ways.
A navy far bigger that the British have for starters. Modern fighters that they improve locally. And the ability to build anything they want, to Lexus standards, quickly.
The Chinese have a big land army, but they are relatively still new at naval warfare.
And Japan has a strange personality that we do not always understand. Under my pendulum of love theory, the more peaceful and shrinking back a people can be,, the more violent they can also be.
Germans were the epitome of romantic thought, hiking the mountains, eidelweiss, poets and philosphers.
The Japanese are very pacifist,, but they are also motivated by honor and pride and principle (as they define it) in ways we do not always fathom. It could get weird.
Clarion call. Got that right.
Bigger Coast Guard, better navy and air force, closer bases to the area.
If it stays low-key they have the advantage. Only way the Chicoms have a chance is massive missile bombardment of Okinawa.
Flying Robots?
Thanks DeaconBenjamin.
They though it was the greatest thing in the world to die for their Emperor. We finally found that we had to fight them to win and did so when we showed them that if they all wanted to die for their Emperor, we would accommodate them with atomic weapons.
To defeat al Qaeda and the growing world of Islamic terrorists dead set on killing all of us as a religiously necessary Jihad, we need to fight them the same way and if necessary, use nuclear weapons before they use nuclear weapons on us.
Go Japan, show Red China how the cow chews the curd— Heavens knows our current resident in the White House won’t.
We had lost 100K GI's fighting the Japanese, along with 300K fighting the Axis powers in Europe. I think it was clear that we had sacrificed enough men to merit trying bigger weapons. It was also pretty clear that Hitler and Hirohito were the commanders-in-chief of the major Axis powers. With al Qaeda, a lot of the sponsorship comes from princelings or rich Muslims who are looking to replace the current rulers. So it would be kind of difficult to justify incinerating a Muslim city just to get at some conspirator trying to enthrone himself at the expense of the current royals.
You won't be saying that when my man Gamera comes to dance, nossireebub!
2)It's easy to forget by looking at our own Left how militant, nationalist, and "patriotic" Communist regimes can be. I sometimes wonder if flower-throwing pacifist hippies and North Korea really do share the same ideology. I'm sure even in a Communist America (G-d forbid!) they'd disarm us and have us kowtowing to everyone. No patriotism for the "socialist motherland" for us!
3)And again, if it weren't for Harry Truman's State Department China would have been a friendly power all these years. Great job, Marshall and Acheson! [/sarcasm]
Japan has huge investments in China. That would go over like a lead balloon.
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