Japan's PM warns China on use of force as jets scrambled

清风寨

Many are skeptical of Japan's sincere apology in the last 70 years.
A long list!
Where should we start?
Denying WWII crimes
not compensate for WWII victims and their families
white washing of text book of WWII crime
whitewashing of Pearl Harbor attack in their war museum
Abe and this cabinet worshiping 14 convicted WWII war criminals annually
Nationalizing disputed islands with only administrative duties by selling them to a Japanese and buying them back
Without any remorse and compensation
Japan politicians openly speak it was right to make other nation's women to be their comfort women

Surely how can a nation forgive themselves without being accountable?
And it's sure is a strange way to ask for forgiveness
Japan politicians are asking why Japan is not forgiven is beyond most of us, while these politicians consistently year after year projected a warped sense of international rules, norms and ethics!

清风寨

"Whatever the reasons for holding on to the Diaoyutais, Japan's claim to ownership is weak. There are books, reports and maps from the 15th century, during the period of the Ming Dynasty, that establish in no uncertain terms that the Diaoyutais are Chinese territory. The books “Voyage with a Tail Wind” and “The Record of the Imperial Envoy's Visit to Ryukyu” bear testimony to this. Even writings by Japanese scholars in the late 19th century acknowledged this fact.
The challenge to Chinese ownership of the Diaoyutais came from Japanese annexation of the islands in 1894-95 following the first Sino-Japanese War. China under the Qing Dynasty was too weak to fight back and regain lost territory. But annexation through military force does not confer legitimacy upon the act of conquest.
This is why when Japan was defeated in World War II the victors, who included China and the U.S., recognized that the Diaoyutais were Chinese territory. Both the Cairo Declaration and the Potsdam Declaration acknowledged this though for administrative purposes the Diaoyutais were placed under U.S. control as part of its governance over the Ryukyu Islands. The U.S. was then the occupying power in Japan following the latter's surrender.
However, when China was taken over by the Chinese Communist Party in 1949, the U.S. changed its position and began to treat the islands as part of Japan. The Chinese Communist leadership protested vehemently. In 1971, the U.S. Senate returned the Diaoyutai Islands, together with Okinawa, to Japan under the Okinawa Reversion Treaty. Again, the Chinese government in Beijing objected, as did the Taiwan government which also regards the islands as part of China.
Since the normalization of relations between China and Japan in 1972, both sides have agreed to allow their fisher folk to operate in the waters surrounding the islands without resolving the issue of ownership. Of course, neither China nor Japan has relinquished even an iota of its claims in the last 40 years. Recent incidents have however forced this unresolved issue into the open.
Now Japan “nationalized” the ownership of the islands. Japan now unilaterally claims the ownership of the islands. Japan is acting tough and won’t back down. Japan is arresting fishing boats from China and Taiwan. Japan broke the status quo (ownership is in dispute). Status quo can’t not be broken !!! In Chinese eyes, this is Japanese aggression. Japan has action, China will have reaction. There is Japanese attack, there will be Chinese counterattack.”

清风寨

As all people across the world can see that China has done its best NOT to make issue boiling over, in this event the root cause of the confrontation is stemming from the dispute over the DiaoYuTai islets, in which China has long said that there is confrontation between China and Japan over this issue, and China is appealing for DIALOGUE to get matter resolved, but the Japan side has encroached the disputed islets as territory under its sovereignty unilaterally. The Japan's action has thus infuriated China, it is now vowing to be more assertive against China, I hope that they do SHOOT one of the Chinese planes down, see how the Chinese PLA will reacts to the such arrogant action.

清风寨

If Japan gives the islets back to China, everything would become peaceful for Japan, China, U.S. and the entire region! Instead, Japan wants to cook up this story about buying the lslets from its private citizen and nationalize them. The problem is how could the private citizen from Japan own these islets if Japan had no sovereignty over them to begin with?! U.S. merely gave Japan administrative rights over these islets after WW2 which means Japan was never the owner!

Japanese citizens own much real estate in the U.S., can the Japanese citizen purchase these real estates from the Japanese citizens and regard them as part of Japanese soil?! Why not?