Chinese education of anti-Japanese

Hello, everyone! I am going to tell you Chinese anti-Japan (Japanese say Hannichi-反日) on this week.

Anti-Japan means that emotion and principle against Japan (for example, politics, a business, people, social, culture, system, history…etc).  The trend of anti-Japan started when Tiananmen Square Incident (an incident that the citizens and students who  was gathering in the Tiananmen Square demanding for democracy got shot indiscriminately by the government ) happened in 1989. 

The Communist Party (the party in China at that time) made Chinese citizens’discontents against them turn to Japan, as Anti-Japan, intentionally. And soon it had an effect on education which established as patriotic education. For example, Chinese history book tell the damage larger than as it is and concealed their stain like Tiananmen Square Incident, the Great Cultural revolution, etc. It was said that 12 million people were killed in the Japanese-Chinese war at the end of the war. But under the education of the anti-Japan trend of president Ko, it swelled to 35 million. Chinese government brainwashed the citizens into anti-Japan by altering the number.

The sentence below is a quote from Chinese history book;

 The Japanese army slaughtered so many people in Ryojun. Japanese army “ gathered Chinese in one place, tied them up, stabbed them with a spear, and cut their body into pieces with their swords.”

As you can see in the quote above, the Chinese exaggerate Japan’s aggressiveness and China’s damage in WW2.

And now that Chinese and Japanese governments are up to the problem of Senkaku Islands, an anti-Japan movement is happening frequently in China. This all started with news reporting that the Japanese government bought the Senkaku Islands and soon spread all over China. Many Japanese supermarkets and motor shops was set on fire and plundered. The root of all these illegal actions of Chinese against Japan is the patriotism that president Ko started in the Tiananmen Square Incident of 1989. This chauvinism accepted Chinese’ illegal movement as “Patriotic Innocence” and allowed Chinese to go on with their movements.

But in the other hand, many Chinese people fall in a strong culture shock when they come to Japan for educations and as business because of the gap between the real Japan that they see, well civilized and technically developed, and the image of Japan that they were taught in school, like “ the place of uncivilized barbarian people.” Especially the upper class, intelligent people learned what they never get to know in their mother country, started to look at their homeland from the outer world and began to doubt what they believed in for all their life, moreover it’s politics, too.

You might wonder why Chinese people don’t realize this when internet and global media is so developed in these days but in China information control system is so strict. The Chinese never doubt what they see in TVs and newspapers.

This made me really wish for the Chinese to get to know Japan in a right way. Thank you for reading!

The true reason of China seeking Senkaku Iｓlands

I think that it is because there are resources around Senkaku Islands that China seeks it.

In the first place, the reason that each country is more curious about Senkaku Islands is that it is discovered there are a lot of oil and gas in the continental shelf of them by geological survey in 1968. In 1971, China insisted the right of possession of Senkaku Islands. In the same year, The United State decided to return Okinawa and Senkaku Islands, and in the next year, actually did. China had dissatisfaction about this, but did not make a protest because China was interested in normalization with Japan. Afterwards, the relationship between Chinese nation and Japanese normalized.

 In 1974, China performed new approach about Senkaku Islands and submitted the postponement of a dispute of it without time limit.

 Because Japan did not want to break relationship with China, found a way of the compromise, too, and was not going to completely reject a Chinese claim.

Afterwards, the relationship is better, both countries signed Japan-China Peace and Friendship Treaty in August 12, 1978.

It was in 1996 that a change occurred in the dispute of the right of possession. Both of countries ratify United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, and include Senkaku Islands among Exclusive Economic Zone. In addition, a result of boring in 1999 made thing worse, because it showed that there was enormous natural gas in its continental shelf. Then, China conducted geological survey activity lively, build the sea platform follow the border of Japanese area of the sea, and began to bore. Because the area where there is natural gas continued the territory of Japan, Japanese government was concerned that China continued to bore in the territory of Japan. But, both of countries wanted to keep off that relations turned worse, so they discussed, and agreed to solve all problems without military power. However, China did not show plans concerning boring and mining natural gas. So, Japanese government began to reexamine requests of Japanese corporations for issuing license to mine in the continental shelf of Senkaku Islands. But the Chinese Foreign Ministry complained about it because it is “agitation”.

This is why anti-Japan expanded in China.

 Several years passed and both of countries noticed that they should agree to probe gas-field in Senkaku Islands together. However, although any difficult consultations that are to let the project go ahead were conducted, each other's positions in the territorial problem did not compromise at all. This is because not only pride but also actual profit as resource.

 The more I study about Senkaku Islands through writing blogs, the uglier I think that this dispute of territory is. Both of countries’ Desire for actual profit is very obvious.

But I think that Senkaku Islands is Japanese territory as far as I look at a lot of documents about Senkaku Islands. It is wrong that China is going to deprive them. However, it was not until enormous resources were found around them that Japan insisted they are Japanese territory strongly. If Japan had insisted at the first, there would be such a dispute of territory between China and Japan. Japan is wrong, too. How do you think? Maybe, you have a different idea. Please sent any comments for me!

Chinese insistence

While Japan insists on the possession of Senkaku Islands, China and Taiwan insist on it. China raises three for historic grounds to insist on the right of possession.

 The first, because Uotsuri Island (魚釣島－a part of Senkaku Islands) appeared for the history documents of Mei (The old Chinese name), Senkaku Islands did not belong to the Ryukyu country, and it was a territory of China.

The second, the territory admission by the Japanese Government of 1895 is the illegal occupation that was carried out without waiting for end of the Sin-Japanese War.

The third, it is the illegal occupation by the United States to have been placed under the administration of the United States in the San Francisco Peace Treaty, and The United states gave Japan it by Agreement for the Return of Okinawa.    

In addition, China insists from the viewpoints of international law. It was said that Japan performed “occupancy” of Senkaku Islands as “a lack of ownership place”. But Uotsuri Island has not been a lack of ownership place since Mei, and it had been established that Uotduri Island was Chinese territory.

Potsdam Declaration (On July 26, 1945, based on an agreement in the Potsdam conference, The United States of America, the Republic of China (the old Chinese name) and the British of leaders uttered it for Great Japanese Empire (the old Japanese name)) means the abandonment of every territory which Japan captured of China. Because Uotsuri Island is belong to Taiwan for geographically, it is included the abandoned territory.  

On the other hand, Taiwan insists that Senkaku Islands have been territories of China historically since Mei, like China. There are three say of Taiwan. The first, senkaku Islands rang Taiwan for geologically and geographically. The second, Taiwan performs the fishing industry around area of the sea. And, Taiwan makes use of Uotsuri Island, naturally and daily. The third, Because Senkaku Islands is not “the lack of ownership ground”, “the occupancy” of Japan is not established and is the illegal occupation under the cover of the victory of the war. Therefore, it should be returned in the territory of Taiwan by “Potsdam Declaration” and “Japan-China Peace Treaty” after World War II

About these China and Taiwan insistences, Japanese government says that their points which are raised for historic, geologic and geographic grounds are not the effective grounds for an argument which support that China has the right of possession of Senkaku Islands, neither.

At present, the Chinese claim does not change. However, a change occurs in the attitude of Taiwan. Ba-eikyu (馬英九－the president of Taiwan) submitted “East China Sea peace initiative(東シナ海平和イニシアチブ)” by a ceremony of August 5, 2012.

About the dispute around Senkaku Islands, Taiwan suggested, “there was the right of possession in China, but the dispute shelves it, and we are settled by peaceful means and build mechanism to develop resources jointly.” Japan will not accept this claim.

Oops! I did not state resources which there are under the sea of Senkaku Islands!

It is the next blog that I will state it! See you.

Japanese insistence

In Japan, they express an opinion that possession of Senkaku Islands of Japan is historically fair in international law. On investigation the Japanese claim about the issue of Senkaku Islands greatly separates three them.

 Primarily, Japan declared the possession of Senkaku Islands in January, 1895, but this was the act that was totally fair in the international law called "the occupancy" of "the place of lack of ownership". The Meiji government performed a field work from 1885 and confirmed what control of clean (China) did not extend to. A cabinet meeting determined it and admitted you into Okinawa after having confirmed that I belonged to neither country carefully.

 The China says, "an uotsurizima(Diaoyu Islands) is a peculiar territory from Akiyo and Kiyo ". However, the China cannot show the record to prove that China gave effective control and insisted on possession nationally, and the "territory idea of the Chinese peculiarity" does not consist.

 Second, the biggest problems of the chinese claim are to never perform both the objection and the protest for Japanese possession for 75 years from 1895 through 1970. In the sun Francisco peace treaty, Senkaku Islands were not included in the territory which Japan abandoned either and were placed under the administration of the United States of America as a part of the South-West Islands and came back to Japan by Okinawa return in1972.

 China did not say an objection against the fact that the archipelago was included in the area under the administration of the United States conventionally. When I do not declare my intentions of the objection including the protest to this while knowing the fact of the occupation by the other country, what is considered to have consented tacitly to the possession of the other country is a principle of law establishing globally. China cannot make an effective argument for these biggest problems.

 Third there is the center point of the claim of the Chinese side about Senkaku Islands taking advantage of Sino-Japanese War from 1894 through 95 in the place that Japan took away unfairly. In the United Nations General Assembly, China added criticism using the expression "that Japan stole".

 However, Senkaku Islands do not enter the Chinese domain ("Taiwan and attachment islands" and "Hpuko islands") that Japan recaptured in war unfairly even if we watch a peace treaty (Shimonoseki Treaty) of the Sino-Japanese War and all negotiations records about it. It is clear that the claim of the China in the United Nations General Assembly does not hold good. The possession of Senkaku Islands by Japan were fair acts and they are different from aggressive policy and expansionism called the cession of Taiwan, Houko island by the Sino-Japanese War.

 Considering these three points, as if Japan is surely fair. but this wrote pro-Japanese to the last and cannot decide an answer to see only this. China, Taiwan strongly insists that still Senkaku Islands are one's territories. You must listen to the opinion of the partner well.

 Japan wants to be settled by talks as means of the solution to international dispute in constitution. In addition, the United Nations Charter by the United Nations determines the pacific solution of the dispute in Chapter 6 and denies solution by the military means. Also, the Security Council can decide an action based on Chapter 7 of the U.N. Charter that determined the military sanction for the country which planned dispute solution by the military power. Also, the People's Republic of China which is one of the people concerned is a permanent member, but, in Article 27 Clause 3, "the decision of the Security Council about the matter of or other none is performed by the affirmative vote of 9 members of the council of the United Nations including the agreement vote of the permanent member". But, about the decision based on Chapter 6 and Article 52, the dispute country concerned must renounce a vote,”But China temporarily plans solution to issue of Senkaku Islands by the military power, even the yes and no cannot announce.

They push forward the construction of the lighthouse in Japan at a private level, and there is the plan that they are going to settle down in, but the Japanese Government stops it. I think that it is clear that Ministry of Foreign Affairs is weak-kneed toward China. However, the solution to the problem is very difficult because China may choose the terrible means when Japan stimulates China.

Hisrory

Senkaku Islands were known to the Ryukyu race for a long time, but it was the area that belonged to no country and was a lack of ownership place in the international law.

 

   The Japanese Government investigated Senkaku Islands after 1885 and judged, "there was no evidence that these Islands belonged to China". And, in 1895, an occupancy theory decided that Senkaku Islands were territories of Japan in a cabinet meeting. Thereafter, Senkaku Islands became the territory of Japan.

　In 1896, Mr. Tatsushiro Koga received permission to lent Senkaku Islands to free for 30 years and reclaimed Senkaku Islands by large-scale financial power. Zenji Koga who was a son of Mr. Tatsushiro Koga succeeded the reclamation, and, for the heyday, the people more than 200 lived in the Uozuri　Island and tried for industrial development.

  Senkaku Islands came to attract attention after a marine investigating group of the United Nations made clear that enormous resource lied in this sea area in 1968.

Taiwan, not only China but also Japan had big interest for this findings. For twice, the Japanese Government let Tokai University investigate the bottom of the sea around the Senkaku Islands. Then the layer of the root stone of the oil spread out 200,000 kilos around Senkaku Islands in the bottom of the sea, and it became clear that the layer thickness amounted to than 3,000 meters. It is the beginning of the territorial dispute.

　

 

　Afterwards, Taiwanese government announced that Taiwanese government had the right of the exploration dig. And Taiwanese government declared that Taiwan had the dominium of Senkaku Islands. In addition, Kainenmaru of the Taiwanese fisheries experimental station raised a fine weather broad daylight flag in the Uozuri Island and refuse an offer of the Japanese government. In contrast, the Japanese made against Taiwanese government about a continental shelf problem again. However, I hardly progressed substantially. On the other hand, China blamed that the measures that Kuomintang government took were territory invasion of China.

　At the time of Okinawa return of 1971, the American Department of State declared openly, "the United States returned the facilities right of the South-West Islands including Senkaku Islands to Japan". In addition, America expressed an opinion, "It was confirmed that the decision of the Agreement for the Return of Okinawa did not have an influence on the claim of the sovereignty possession of any country about Senkaku Islands either"

Afterwards, there has been the opposition of possession of Senkaku Islands between Japan and China. The reason is to have judged that it is minus that Japanese Government gives the issue of possession of Senkaku Islands for Japan-China Treaty of Peace and Friendship negotiations.

　I think there ware something wrong in each countries. Taiwan and China began to insist, after a marine investigating group of the United Nations made clear that enormous resource lied in this sea area. It is clear that their purpose is enormous resource. But Japan was wrong, too. If Japan had insisted strongly, such an issue wouldn’t develop.