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Posted on 02/12/2026 10:53:55 PM PST by nickcarraway
The vessel's captain was ordered to stop for an inspection, but failed to comply and fled, Japan's fisheries agency said.
Japan seized a Chinese fishing boat and arrested its skipper, authorities said on Friday (Feb 13), an incident that could deepen a spat between the Asian giants.
The episode on Thursday off southern Japan came three months after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi suggested that Japan would intervene militarily if Beijing sought to take Taiwan by force. "The vessel's captain was ordered to stop for an inspection by a fisheries inspector, but the vessel failed to comply and fled," Japan's fisheries agency said.
"Consequently, the vessel's captain was arrested on the same day," according to a statement.
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I’m glad at least one nation in that area has the balls to confront the Chinese on their bullying and their shenanigans.
we have a lot in common with the japanese— I can’t stand chinamen either. Murdering millions of people indiscriminately with a bat bioweapon does that to people
I disagree. Japan was unacceptably brutal at that time. The problem wasn’t China per se, and I can point to ROC Taiwan to make that point. The problem was twofold: the corrupt Chang-Kai-Shek regime and the Chinese Communists who gained power as a reaction to it.
There were no good solutions at that time.
Japan has the 3rd most powerful navy in Asia in tonnage terms, behind China and India (Russia doesn’t count because its navy is mostly in Europe). If Japan is having issues with Chinese fishing vessels, you gotta wonder how less well funded navies are faring in terms of catching Chinese poachers.
A lot of Taiwanese (Ethnic Chinese, including my Amah) strongly preferred the Japanese to Chiang and the Kuomintang and were killed by the KMT for it in the late 40’s and into the 50’s. I was surprised by their loyalty to the Japanese after arriving in the ROC to live for two years in the mid 70’s.
The Chinese are illegally denuding the oceans of all fish with nets known as “Walls of Death”.
This has been going on for decades.
Give the Navy some target practice.
Honestly, I can’t read about the Rape of Nanking anymore because it was as brutal, if not more brutal than the Nazis.
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Then there are the 20 million Chinese that the Japanese used in medical experiments that put the Nazi’s to shame.
Then there was the Chinese general that toured Nagasaki and Hiroshima who commented, “You Americans do good work”.
The Chinese plan for the Japanese after the war was to kill all males over 5, sterilize all the women and use them as “comfort women,” and use the male children as slaves, until they died of overwork, exhaustion or starvation.
Chinese sentiments toward the Japanese have not changed since.
Unit 731. I am sure that the Chinese haven’t forgotten. And we can’t forget that our own military looked the other way in regards to a lot of the atrocities committed against the Chinese people, in exchange for the medical records compiled by the Japanese on their experiments.
I’m not anti-Japanese, but the history is what it is.
“The Sand Pebbles”. Steve McQueen flick. The Nationalists under Chiang Kai Scheck were the bad guys in 1926. 20 years later they’re the good guys. The British diplomat in the beginning scoffed at the American missionary and declared they all were gonna hate them. Gunboat diplomacy on our part. Warlords and gangsters running the place-it was not a country.
Question: was our occupation of Japan meant to keep them from Chicom payback? Like NATO keeping the Krauts protected from the Soviets.
We screwed up in Viet Nam. They hated the Chinese too. Lost Tibet. What’s ahead? Another Tiannamen Square wouldn’t hurt. Giving Hanoi the $4 billion Kissinger promised would help. Do the Norks really appreciate the Chicoms?
A lot on our plate.
The same Japan that created Unit 731...?
We had a chance in the 1920s to cooperate with Japan before the militarists took over, but we decided to support the Europeans and keeping their colonies in Asia.
Japan would have been a good bulwark against the Soviets.
It was driven by fear of Japan falling to the Soviets. That was why we kept Hirohito as Emperor. Smart move, in the end.
That’s the story, anyway. :-)
And we can’t forget that our own military looked the other way ... in exchange for the medical records compiled by the Japanese on their experiments.
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Where do I find a source for that claim?
Sounds like two pagan countries that need Christianity.
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The fastest growing segment of Christianity is China, were, in a few years, there will be more Christians than in any other country, and a few decades after that, more Christians than all other countries combined.
Christianity in Japan represents a minority religion with deep historical roots and complex cultural dynamics. While only about 1% of the population identifies as Christian, the faith has significantly influenced Japanese society, especially through cultural practices like weddings and holidays.
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