Japan considers expelling Chinese activists
On August 16, Japanese media reported that the country is considering expelling 14 Chinese activists as a move to defuse tensions between the two countries.
Chinese ships violated the areaThe disputed Senkaku Islands are controlled by Japan - Photo: NHK
On the morning of August 16, Japanese police took the detained Chinese activists, including seven who landed on an uninhabited rocky island in the disputed East China Sea on August 15, to Okinawa for questioning. NHK radio said that if they did not do anything illegal, the Japanese government would deport them after taking their statements.
The tension between the two countries occurred on the 67th anniversary of the end of World War II, when the two countries continuously made claims to the archipelago located between Taiwan and Okinawa, known in Japan as the Senkaku Islands and in China as the Diaoyu Islands.
Both Japan and China have protested the landing of Chinese activists on the Senkaku Islands. Japanese people protested in front of the Chinese embassy, while Beijing authorities demanded Japan “immediately and unconditionally release them.”
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