Senkaku Islands

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(1) '中国高层质疑搁置钓鱼岛问题.'  BBC Chinese, Sept 25, 2012.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/si ... ao_bytongqian.shtml

My commenht: I can not find the Yomiuri report.

(2) 钓岛局势更趋复杂 擦枪走火难以预料. Sept 25, 2012
http://www.voachinese.com/conten ... 120925/1514651.html
("多家海外媒体转载日本海上保安厅的消息称，大约10艘中国海军护卫舰上星期开始出现在有争议的钓鱼岛附近")

My comment: There is no need to read the rest of hte report.

(3) Martin Fackler, In Shark-Infested Waters, Resolve of Two Giants Is Tested. New York Times, Sept 23, 2012.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/2 ... hina-and-japan.html

Quote:

"That is a lot of commotion over islands that until recently seemed a forgotten backwater. Even before World War II, there were few economic activities on the islands. A small factory on Uotsuri [魚釣(島), the largest islet] made dried bonito shavings, a favorite Japanese food * * *  At that time, the factory owner had bought four of the five islands from the government, which showed little interest in them. After the factory closed in 1940, the factory owner’s son held onto the islands until the 1970s and early 1980s, when, aging and childless, he sold them off one by one to a family friend, Kunioki Kurihara, who recently sold three of them to the government. His family still owns one that it rents to the national government. That island, and the fifth one already owned by the national government, were both used for bombing practice by the United States military until 1978.