
China and South Korea are facing intense criticism in Japan after both nations refused to attend the official 2nd anniversary memorial service for the 3/11 tragedy, with China even going a step further and criticising Japan for allowing Taiwan to present a wreath at the ceremony.
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Japanese officials and nationalists alike are aghast at the plans of a landholder to sell his island to the Chinese, their concerns made all the more acute by the fact it contains a partially complete military base.
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Anti-American protesters in Okinawa have been flying kites and balloons around a US airbase in protest against the deployment of the supposedly accident-prone V-22 Osprey to the islands, in what critics suspect is an effort to deliberately induce an accident to better prove their point.
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China has taken to denouncing the Japan Coast Guard as “right wing invaders” after Chinese patrol vessels entering the waters around the Senkaku islands spotted them violating their sacred territorial waters.
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Aging king of kung fu kitsch Jackie Chan has waded into the debate (or non-debate, according to both China and Japan) surrounding the sovereignty of the Senkaku islands, saying they ought to be returned to China’s loving embrace.
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A survey of 34,000 Chinese has revealed half of them think the Japanese prime minister is the most anti-Chinese in history, in no small part thanks to his devilish attempts to enslave the Senkaku islands and their innocent caprine population under the yoke of Japanese oppression.
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Senkaku fans have been marvelling at the latest naval theatrics to play out in the seas around the isles – this time coast guard vessels from Japan and Taiwan clashed, though with water cannon rather than the regular kind.
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China has resorted to the desperate expedient of attempting to firm up its claim to the Senkaku isles with some topless bodypainting action, handily giving its notoriously enthusiastic patriots the opportunity for two forms of onanism in one.
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Amazingly, surveys of the American people now reveal the vast majority of them do not trust their new Chinese friends at all, with most apparently considering them a more pressing threat even than Iran or North Korea – coming as something of a relief to Japanese who had been left pondering being dumped in favour of China.
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China’s rampaging mobs have further proved the might of their great nation and its ancient and irrevocable claim to the Diaoyus, this time by attacking Italian diplomats for daring to drive a Japanese car.
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China’s rampaging anti-Japanese mobs have further humiliated their nation in the eyes of the civilised world by “mistakenly” burning down a Samsung factory located in China, apparently having confused South Korea’s leading electronics company for a Japanese one.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Sep 17, 2012 08:56 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Cars, China, Crime, Internet, Okinawa, Politics, Senkaku Complex, Toyota

The case of a Chinese man who faces permanent paralysis after being dragged out of his car and brutally beaten by a mob who were infuriated by the fact he was driving a Japanese-made car has scandalised many Chinese, who are apparently starting to question the patriotic nature of such acts.
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