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8 21, in Yokohama, Japan’s Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Shipbuilding plant, a new Japanese one large helicopter destroyer “Ise” in the naming and launching ceremony held here. Xinhua News Agency reporters Ren Zheng and Lai She
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Data Figure: Japan’s most far eastern end of the South Bird Island

January 19 issue of” Global Times “reported, Japan 174th Congress kicked off on the 18th. Earlier, Japanese media said that the Japanese government will be presented in this session of Congress a new bill for the protection of Japan’s southernmost “Okinotori” (China, said, “Okinotorishima”) and the easternmost of the “South Bird Island “the coastline, to contain China. Feng Zhaokui Chinese Academy of Social Sciences researcher at the Institute of Japan, “Global Times” said, in fact, part of the Japanese high seas that would like to become a “private sea” approach has been not just an issue between China and Japan, but against the interests of all humankind on the high seas, which is selfish to kill whales, and Japan, as is the lack of moral practice.

According to “Nihon Keizai Shimbun,” 15 reported that the Japanese Government is prepared to first “Okinotori Island” and “Southern Bird Island” in the law designated as the “island” and then in 2010 the annual budget allocations 700 million yen (about 52.5 million yuan) for construction. It is reported that the new bill to be submitted to include three elements: First, the state responsible for the protection and construction of two “islands” of the basic plan; second, prohibiting a change in the behavior of the current coastline, the obligation to protect these two ” island “is not submerged or eroded; Third, the construction can be managed directly by the State harbor facilities.

for “Okinotori,” China has always maintained that “it is not the island, but the reef, should not set the exclusive economic zone.” “Japanese Economic News” analysis that the Japanese government hopes the new law is in the “two islands” surrounding the development of scarce resources such as fisheries and provide a legal basis, and implies the intention to contain China. Japan’s “Yomiuri Shimbun,” is that for China the “Okinotori” is the idea of ??rock, apparently wants to build Japan’s harbor and other methods will fight the future of fisheries and meteorological observation base, so as to clarify Japan’s sovereignty, ensure that Japan’s maritime interests. ▲ (Jiang Feng Liu Yang)

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