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"Whosoever contracts with violent means for whatever ends—and every politician does—is exposed to its specific consequences. This holds especially for the crusader, religious and revolutionary alike. Let us confidently take the present as an example. He who wants to establish absolute justice on earth by force requires a following, a human 'machine.' He must hold out the necessary internal and external premiums, heavenly or worldly reward, to this 'machine' or else the machine will not function. Under the conditions of the modern class struggle, the internal premiums consist of the satisfying of hatred and the craving for revenge; above all, resentment and the need for pseudo-ethical self-righteousness: the opponents must be slandered and accused of heresy. The external rewards are adventure, victory, booty, power, and spoils. The leader and his success are completely dependent upon the functioning of his machine and hence not on his own motives. Therefore he also depends upon whether or not the premiums can be permanently granted to the following, that is, to the Red Guard, the informers, the agitators, whom he needs. What he actually attains under the conditions of his work is therefore not in his hand, but is prescribed to him by the following's motives, which, if viewed ethically, are predominantly base. The following can be harnessed only so long as an honest belief in his person and his cause inspires at least part of the following, probably never on earth even the majority. This belief, even when subjectively sincere, is in a very great number of cases really no more than an ethical 'legitimation of cravings for revenge, power, booty, and spoils. We shall not be deceived about this by verbiage; the materialist interpretation of history is no cab to be taken at will; it does not stop short of the promoters of revolutions. Emotional revolutionism is followed by the traditionalist routine of everyday life; the crusading leader and the faith itself fade away, or, what is even more effective, the faith becomes part of the conventional phraseology of political Philistines and banausic technicians. This development is especially rapid with struggles of faith because they are usually led or inspired by genuine leaders, that is, prophets of revolution. For here, as with every leader's machine, one of the conditions for success is the depersonalization and routinization, in short, the psychic proletarianization, in the interests of discipline. After coming to power the following of a crusader usually degenerates very easily into a quite common stratum of spoilsmen.
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LINCOLN, Neb. -- By Saturday, the drab white tunnel walls were replaced by a fresh coat of red paint and pictures of serious young men who became All-Americans. The hip-hop music that thumped through the Cornhuskers' entrance to the field was gone, because back in the good old days, game faces were molded to the beat of The Alan Parsons Project.
Tom Osborne was everywhere in his first week on the job as Nebraska's interim athletic director. Friday morning, he received standing ovations over eggs, coffee and pep talks in Omaha. Saturday, his presence in a downtrodden football state was palpable. College students walked around campus wearing T-shirts that said, "T.O.'s House Cleaning Service."
The Cornhuskers seemed rejuvenated.
"I'm not going to lie," NU defensive lineman Zach Potter said. "I tried harder when he was out there. Because he's coach Osborne. It's sweet."
They can be ironic, though. Like when the Aggies made defenders whiff and scurry over the option, the same brand of outdated offense the Huskers were running four years ago. Back then, Frank Solich was considered a caveman of sorts and Bill Callahan was fresh and bringing in a fancy, new West Coast offense.
On Saturday, the Cornhuskers yearned for more of the old. They were shut out in the second half, gave up 359 rushing yards and have lost three straight by a combined score of 122-34. They are 4-4 and go to Texas next week. Many considered Saturday the last realistically winnable game of the season.
"Obviously, we're hurting again," Callahan said. "I felt coming into the year we had a good team -- we do have a good football team. We have talent. We're just not getting it done for whatever reason. But I'm not sagging. I'm just really disappointed."
It has been a season of dramatic mood swings and cold, swirling winds. This week alone, there were two impromptu news conferences, one firing, and at least 50 rumors of coaching changes. Callahan's demeanor has changed, too. When the Huskers were blown out at Missouri two weeks ago, he arrived at his weekly news conference determined and on the offensive. They still had the Big 12 North title in sight. On Saturday, he seemed contrite, defeated and almost resigned to the fact that his time in Lincoln is all but over.
To shake things up, he brought offensive coordinator Shawn Watson down from the booth to share play-calling duties. It seemed to be working just before halftime, when Sam Keller hit Maurice Purify for a 10-yard touchdown pass to cut the Aggies' lead to two.
"We have to stick together," Potter said. "If we just quit now I really don't want to end up being 4-8."
Osborne, who will ultimately decide the coaching staff's fate, says he likes Callahan and believes he was thrust into a difficult situation, following a fired 9-3 coach. He attended at least two football practices this week, and the players said Osborne's presence -- and his old-school changes -- motivated them in the days leading up to the game.
But the makeup of this team is so anti-Osborne. Nebraska's two-deep roster is full of junior-college players and transfers and out-of-staters who've never had the chance to learn what the pictures on the wall of the tunnel mean to Osborne.
Maybe they'll figure it out with a few more coats of paint and a giant scraper.
"I don't think he makes us play better or makes us coach any different," says NU receiver Nate Swift. "But it's nice to have him here."
As the Cornhuskers stumbled off the field late Saturday, fans hung over the rails wearing pitied looks. "Keep your head up, football player!" a man yelled.
The football player kept his eyes fixed on the FieldTurf.
Callahan gathered them together and told the players he was proud of their effort. It was better than last week's 45-14 loss to Oklahoma State.
But it was worlds away from the old Nebraska.
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Tensions between Beijing and Tokyo are running high over competing claims to a group of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea.
Your Nov. 1 editorial "The Senkaku Boomerang" rightly condemns "bullying" as a means of resolving the continuing territorial dispute. However, the notion that explicit U.S. support for Japanese claims will resolve the dispute justly and peacefully is misguided. What is needed now is a code of conduct to govern multilateral relations regarding the the Diaoyu Islands (called the "Senkaku Islands" in the editorial) and to protect the region from the potential miscommunications and miscalculations to which you refer.
The claim that the U.S. already "effectively [settled]" the dispute in the early 1970s is inaccurate. The U.S. ceded administrative control of the Diaoyu Islands to Japan but specified that "any conflicting claims to the islands are a matter for resolution by the parties concerned." The U.S. has reaffirmed its neutrality regarding sovereignty on multiple occasions since then.
Given the deep disagreements over the question of sovereignty, the Republic of China (Taiwan) has advocated that all sides suspend disputation and jointly manage, develop and enjoy the islands' natural resources. While maintaining its own claim to the islands, Taiwan has set a good example for how to cooperate fairly and responsibly with other parties. The April 2013 fisheries agreement between Taiwan and Japan should serve as a model for future negotiations. Only when all parties abandon unilateral action and work together to share the islands' resources can this issue be justly and peacefully resolved.
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It is true that at the end of the Pacific War the U.S. took control of these Diaoyu Islands, as it did the Japanese prefecture called the Ryukyu Islands. But it didn't take the Diaoyus from Japan because they were never a part of Japanese territory. So in 1971-1972 when the Ryukyu Islands chain was returned to Japan according to the Okinawa Reversion Agreement, it was an error on the part of the U.S. to simultaneously declare the Diaoyu Islands a territory of Japan. They were clearly Chinese territory from ancient times, and the U.S. wasn't justified in transferring the islands to Japan.
Prior to 1609, Japan's territory was limited to Kyushu, Shukoku and Honshu. In 1609 under the Tokugawa, the powerful domain of Satsuma (modern day Kagoshima), located at the southern extreme of the Japanese archipelago, took control of the independent kingdom of the Ryukyu Islands. Subsequently the Meiji government declared the island chain a "prefecture" of Japan in 1872. Although the nearby island of Taiwan was ceded by China to Japan shortly thereafter, among spoils of the 1894 Sino-Japanese War, neither the Diaoyus or any other islands in the East China Sea were ever officially brought under Japanese control.
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China's move to enforce an air-defense zone has several countries in the region concerned. Deborah Kan speaks to Scott Harold of RAND Corp., a global think tank, on why China may be playing the wrong hand in its play for islands in the East China Sea.
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Effective 10 a.m. on Nov. 23, Beijing declared an Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) covering a significant portion of the East China Sea. The Chinese air force soon conducted its first patrol in the zone, with two large reconnaissance aircraft monitoring the area, early warning aircraft supporting and fighters providing cover.
In its official statement announcing the establishment of the ADIZ, China's Ministry of National Defense stated that it would require flight plan, transponder, radio and logo identification for all aircraft operating in the zone. The official Xinhua news agency elaborates: "The new rules state that all aircraft flying in the zone should report their flight plans to China's Foreign Ministry and the Civil Aviation Administration. If an aircraft doesn't supply its flight plan, China's armed forces will adopt emergency defensive measures in response. The announcement states that China's Ministry of National Defense has full administrative rights over the zone." PLAAF spokesman Shen Jinke adds that, "The military is capable of effectively controlling the zone."
Andrew Erickson is a professor at the U.S. Naval War College and a research associate at Harvard's Fairbank Center. Co-founder of China SignPost (洞察中国), he blogs at www.andrewerickson.com. The ideas articulated here are solely those of Andrew Erickson, and do not represent the policies or estimates of the U.S. Navy or any other organization of the U.S. Government.
By Jeremy Page
BEIJING—China further asserted its claim to East China Sea islands controlled by Japan, announcing Saturday it set up an air defense zone covering the disputed area within which foreign aircraft must identify flight plans and follow instructions from the Chinese military.
The new Chinese Air Defense Identification Zone, or ADIZ, appears to overlap with Japan's own such zone. That, analysts said, could increase the potential for a clash between Chinese and Japanese military planes operating around the disputed islands, which Japan calls the Senkaku and China the Diaoyu.
U.S. officials have said they fear that such a clash—or a collision—could escalate into a military confrontation between China and Japan that could also drag in the U.S., which is obliged to defend Japan under a six-decade-old security treaty.
Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in response that the move by Beijing was "absolutely unacceptable," adding that China "is unilaterally escalating the situation." It also said that "there could be further protests" in the future.
China's Ministry of National Defense said in a statement that the new zone would come into effect at 10 a.m. Saturday, according to the government's Xinhua news agency. "China's armed forces will adopt defensive emergency measures to respond to aircraft that don't cooperate in the identification or refuse to follow the instructions," the ministry said.
Xinhua published the coordinates of the zone and a map showing that it covers the disputed islands and at its easternmost point stretches to within about 130 km, or 81 miles, from Kyushu, one of the main Japanese islands.
Japan is one of many countries with an ADIZ, within which it reserves the right to identify, communicate with and intercept approaching foreign aircraft. Japan's zone extends 200 nautical miles from its shores, well beyond its national airspace.
Tokyo has repeatedly scrambled fighter jets to intercept Chinese aircraft approaching the islands since the two countries' territorial dispute flared up last year after the Japanese government purchased some of the islands from a private owner.
China disputes the legality of Japan's ADIZ and the airspace Japan claims around the islands. It has in the past scrambled its fighter jets in response to a Japanese interception, despite not having delimited an ADIZ of its own before Saturday.
A Japanese security expert said that while setting up an ADIZ has no effect on a country's claim over territory, Chinese enforcement would heighten tensions.
"An ADIZ isn't defined in international law. Basically, each country draws up its own and operates on that basis. Therefore, setting up the ADIZ doesn't have any legal meaning for China or affect Japan's territorial rights. However, it is unclear to what extent they will enforce it. In general the situation is getting riskier," said Narushige Michishita of the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo.
In making its announcement, China's defense ministry also issued a list of rules for foreign aircraft entering the new zone, which required them, among other things, to report their flight plans to China's foreign ministry or civil aviation administration, Xinhua said.
As part of the rules, Xinhua said, foreign aircraft in the zone must maintain two-way radio communications with Chinese authorities and respond "in a timely and accurate manner" if asked for identification. All aircraft in the zone should follow the instructions of China's defense ministry or units authorized by it, Xinhua said.
Xinhua quoted Col. Yang Yujun, a defense ministry spokesman, as saying the establishment of the new zone was in line with international practice and was designed to guard against potential air attacks.
"It sets aside time for early warning and helps defend the country's airspace," Xinhua quoted him as saying. "It has no particular target and won't affect the freedom of flight in relevant airspace."
Col. Yang was quoted as saying that the east end of the zone, which is closest to Japan, had been demarcated at that point because incoming aircraft could reach China's shores "within a short time" from there.
Without mentioning Japan by name, he also noted that a "relevant country" had established an ADIZ that came within 130 km (81 miles) of China's coastline, Xinhua said.
"China will take timely measures to deal with air threats and unidentified flying objects from the sea, including identification, monitoring, control and disposition, and it hopes all relevant sides positively cooperate and jointly maintain flying safety," Xinhua quoted him as saying. "The normal flight of international flights in the zone won't be affected."
–Mari Iwata in Tokyo contributed to this article.
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By Yuka Hayashi
This file picture shows Shotaro Yachi as Japan's vice foreign minister in 2006. Mr. Yachi is currently a key diplomatic policy adviser to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
The government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has a new phrase to characterize its policy for dealing with territorial tensions with China: strategic patience.
The term was introduced to an audience in Tokyo earlier this week by Shotaro Yachi, a former top foreign ministry official who is now the prime minister's key diplomatic policy adviser.
According to Mr. Yachi, strategic patience means Japan "will refrain from responding emotionally" to provocations by Beijing – namely the continued incursion of official Chinese ships into the waters around East China Sea islands controlled by Japan but also claimed by China. Under the policy, Japan won't engage in acts of unnecessary provocation either, Mr. Yachi added.
"China is our neighbor and neither of us can move away from each other," Mr. Yachi said in a speech on Monday at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, attended by students, scholars and diplomats. "With an eye toward building a sound relationship for the future, for our children and grandchildren, I think we should pursue the stance of strategic patience."
The definition of patience, however, depends on the viewpoint. Blaming Japan for escalating bilateral tensions, Chinese media have been closely covering ongoing military exercises by Japanese troops involving an amphibious landing drill on an uninhabited island in Okinawa, not unlike the islands at the center of the territorial dispute. The disputed islands are known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China.
Beijing also bitterly complained late last month that Tokyo interfered with a Chinese naval exercise in the Western Pacific, a claim Japanese officials denied.
Mr. Yachi noted that Mr. Abe has proposed holding a summit meeting with Chinese leaders with no pre-conditions, and blamed China for failing to respond.
"When it comes to the Senkakus, China adopts an extremely rigid attitude and it won't move away from it even by a little bit," he said.
Mr. Yachi added, however, that he was more hopeful about possible progress in bilateral relations after Chinese President Xi Jinping proclaimed in late October that China will seek a "sound neighboring environment," and "common development" with its neighbors.
Tokyo may be embracing strategic patience, but it didn't coin the term. The expression has already been used by the administration of President Barack Obama to describe its stance toward North Korea as it tries to persuade Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons program. After a series of missile and nuclear tests by North Korea since last year, Mr. Obama came under criticism by some in Asia and in Washington for allowing the isolated nation to grow more bellicose under his strategy of patience.
During his rare public speech, Mr. Yachi also revisited other key phrases that characterize Mr. Abe's foreign policy. The prime minister, the adviser said, has been putting into practice a pledge to pursue "diplomacy that takes a panoramic perspective of the world map." To broaden Japan's foreign policy, which has for decades focused tightly on its bilateral ties with the U.S., Mr. Abe has visited 23 countries since taking office last December, and met with the heads of nearly 120 countries.
"At the core is the Japan-U.S. bilateral relationship, but we see it as extremely important to expand our ties with other nations around the world more broadly to protect our national interests," Mr. Yachi said. He added that the bilateral security treaty between Tokyo and Washington should be revised in the future to make it more "mutually dependent" so Japan can come to the rescue of the U.S. when needed. The current treaty requires the U.S. to defend Japan, he said, but not the other way around.
He also stressed that Japan will strive to be an "active contributor to global peace" – the government's preferred translation of the Japanese term "sekkyokuteki heiwashugi", which literally means active pacifism. The smart use of official development aid and active participation in peace-keeping operations are part of such a strategy, he said.
"It's the opposite of one-nation pacifism," he said, referring to the attitude he said people tended to have in Japan. "It's the opposite of the thinking that all is good so long as your country is peaceful and that it's better not to get involved in conflicts in the rest of the world."
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When the Japanese government announced one year ago today the purchase of a chain of tiny East China Sea islands at the heart of a territorial dispute with China, few in Japan imagined it would inflict major damage to ties between the two neighbors. After all, the purchase was intended to safeguard their friendship by keeping the islands out of the hands of a provocateur threatening to use them to incite tensions.
But that was not how Tokyo's act was interpreted by Beijing, which took it as an outright violation of a longstanding detente, where both governments claimed the islands but neither directly owned them. What followed was a stunning deterioration in the relationship between the two Asian powers that dented bilateral trade and investment and fueled worries among security officials from Singapore to Washington.
A week after Tokyo bought the islands — known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China — on Sept. 11, 2012, tens of thousands of Chinese protesters took to the street, some pillaging and setting aflame local Japanese businesses. Soon, patrol ships and military planes from the two countries were chasing each other in waters and skies near the islands. Shinzo Abe, a hawkish Japanese politician, returned to power amid the tensions, and began to discuss beefing up the nation's defense to counter China's military buildup. There were a few scary close encounters. In January, Chinese ships took the provocative act of locking weapons-guiding radar — a precursor to firing shots — on Japanese naval targets. Some in Japan began to worry that their pacifist country might get entangled in a military conflict.
The latest scuffle hasn't resulted in any violent clashes. But a year after Tokyo's fateful action — which even some Japanese experts now see as a foreign policy blunder — the chasm between the two nations remains. Beijing has ramped up pressure on Japan to recognize its claims on the islands, while Japan — which has the effective control of the islands — has refused to acknowledge the existence of the dispute itself.
In recent days, in the run-up to the one-year anniversary of the island nationalization, Beijing appears to have stepped up its provocations. On Tuesday, seven Chinese paramilitary ships entered the territorial waters around the Senkakus, the largest fleet witnessed in the area since April. That followed complaints from Japanese officials that two Chinese bombers flew near the main islands of Okinawa on Sunday. On Monday, the Japanese air force scrambled fighter jets after a drone, suspected as Chinese, flew near the disputed islands.
To respond to the flurry of activity, defense minister Itsunori Onodera said Tuesday Japan would beef up monitoring and surveillance in the area throughout Wednesday's anniversary. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga expressed regrets over the increased Chinese maritime activity, and noted that stationing government officials on the disputed islands to protect them remains "one option" as Tokyo discusses strategic measures to deal with the tensions there. Such a move would incense Beijing.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe instructed his cabinet Tuesday to draw up a new national security strategy. "The security environment around Japan has become more severe," Mr. Abe was quoted by a Japanese government official as telling his ministers.
Beijing returned the rhetorical volley. The Chinese Foreign Ministry expressed "grave concern" over Mr. Suga's comment and stressed that China will not tolerate actions that violate its territorial sovereignty, according to Xinhua, a national news agency.
"China is firm in its resolution and determination on safeguarding the sovereignty over the Diaoyu Islands," Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei told reporters Tuesday. "If the Japanese side deliberately provokes, it must bear the consequences."
Still, there is a glimmer of hope. For the first time since the two leaders took power last winter, Mr. Abe and Chinese President Xi Jinping met face-to-face last Thursday on the sidelines of an international summit in Russia. While the encounter lasted only "four to five minutes, " Japanese officials described it as a positive development that could encourage more contact between working-level officials.
Marking the first visit to China by Japanese state ministers since the flare-up of the dispute a year ago, Tokyo said Tuesday two members of Mr. Abe's cabinet — the education minister and the science and technology minister — will visit Dalian from Wednesday to attend a conference organized by the World Economic Forum.
Speaking at a press conference on Saturday, Mr. Abe said relations with China were "among the most important bilateral relations" for Japan and underlined Tokyo's intention to pursue dialogue with Beijing. "Our door always remains open for dialogue," Mr. Abe said.
–Toko Sekiguchi contributed to this article.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday chatted with Chinese President Xi Jinping for several minutes before a meeting of leaders of the Group of 20 nations in St Petersburg, Russia, but there was no indication that a formal meeting would follow anytime soon.
It was the first contact between the two leaders since former prime minister Yoshihiko Noda and Chinese leader Hu Jintao had a similar chat on the sidelines of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperate meeting in Russia in September last year.
The conversation between Mr. Abe and Mr. Xi lasted four or five minutes, a senior Japanese official told The Wall Street Journal, without disclosing what they talked about.
Mr. Abe also met one-on-one with other leaders while in St. Petersburg, including U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Mr. Abe has repeatedly voiced his willingness to meet with his Chinese counterpart following a deterioration in relations between the two countries over disputed islands in the East China Sea.
Beijing has rebuffed such overtures, insisting Tokyo compromise over the islands it controls, but which China claims.
Earlier Thursday, Japanese foreign ministry spokeswoman Kuni Sato suggested to reporters there hadn't been any big breakthrough in the impasse between the two countries.
"Mr. Abe has been saying that on his part he is open (to a meeting with Mr. Xi) and he emphasizes the importance of talking. But we still have to wait," she said.
In the lead-up to Japan's upper-house election in July, Mr. Abe took the unusual step of flying more than 2,000 kilometers to one of the disputed islands to demonstrate his resolve to protect Japanese territory.
Chinese ships regularly enter the waters around the islands, called Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China.
Hong Kong activist Lo Chau, owner of fishing vessel "Kai Fung No. 2″ and a member of the "Action Committee for Defending the Diaoyu Islands", holds a flag reading, "Diaoyu is Chinese Territory", after a news conference on the deck of his vessel at a typhoon shelter in Hong Kong August 8.
August 15, the anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II, is always a testy day for regional harmony in Asia, as bitter wartime memories are shared and re-lived, both in Japan and the neighbors it once invaded. In recent weeks, there was concern that tensions could climb particularly high this year because of flare-ups in territorial disputes and disagreements between Japan and other countries over the interpretation of wartime history.
Recent developments suggest the worst may be avoided, thanks to restraint displayed by both China and Japan.
To the relief of Japanese officials, a Hong Kong-based group of anti-Japan activists recently announced it cancelled a plan to land on the East China Sea islands–known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China–which are at the center of a territorial dispute between Tokyo and Beijing. Last year on Aug. 15, Hong Kong activists landed on the islands and were arrested–then released–by Japanese authorities, triggering a chain of events that severely damaged bilateral ties.
The Hong Kong group, the Action Committee for Defending the Diaoyu Islands, said it was forced to cancel its trip this year after it failed to secure permission from Hong Kong authorities to set sail with its ship.
An affiliated group that was to travel from Taiwan to join Mr. Ho's group also canceled its trip, citing pressure from Taipei.
Tokyo appears to be doing its part in trying to avoid an escalation in tensions.
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Still, there's little room for optimism.
Chinese coast guard ships sail in sensitive waters near the disputed territory every day, keeping Japanese officials on high alert and underlining Beijing's resolve to weaken Tokyo's administrative control of the islands.
The 35th anniversary on Aug. 12 of the signing of the Japan-China Treaty of Peace and Friendship, the agreement that restored diplomatic ties the two countries had severed during World War II, turned out to be a low-key event, with just nine Japanese lawmakers–mostly junior politicians–visiting Beijing. In the past, top officials have attended such key anniversaries. A large private-sector symposium to commemorate the anniversary, where experts were to exchange views on bilateral cooperation on economy and regional security, was postponed. The Japanese side cited a request from China for the postponement.
A survey conducted ahead of the symposium by its organizers, the China Daily and Japanese think tank Genron NPO, confirmed sharp deterioration in the sentiment of each country's citizens toward the other. In Japan, 90.1% of the respondents said they had negative impressions of China, up from 84.3% a year ago and the highest level since the survey started in 2005. In China, 92.8% expressed negative feelings toward Japan, up from 64.5% a year ago, also the worst result ever.
A yacht of British registry carrying a Chinese flag cruises near the disputed islets known as the Senkaku islands in Japan and Diaoyu islands in China, in the East China Sea on Aug. 3.
Japanese and Chinese coast guard boats found themselves both rushing to a mysterious yacht near the East China Sea's disputed islands over the weekend, kicking off what is normally a busy season for the small but hotly contested archipelago.
The five islands, known as Senkaku in Japanese and Diaoyu in Chinese, are claimed by China, Japan and Taiwan. The incident raises the question of whether August and September 2013 will be as lively as recent years. Hong Kong activists and Japanese activists landed separately in August 2012, and the Hong Kong activists have said they plan to land again this year on August 15, according to local media.
The Japan Coast Guard spotted the white yacht with a United Kingdom call sign flying a Chinese flag near one of the islands on Saturday afternoon. At the same time, four Chinese coast guard boats pursued the vessel into territorial waters around one of the islands at about 5:15 p.m., a Japanese coast guard spokesman said at the Japan Coast Guard's 11th Regional Headquarters.
The vessel did not reply to the Japanese demands to leave the waters, the spokesman said, and instead dropped off buoys bearing Chinese flags and sailed out of territorial waters around 10:42 p.m. The Japanese coast guard recovered the buoys early Sunday morning.
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The Japan Coast Guard confirmed a mysterious yacht flying a Chinese flag near disputed islands in the East China Sea on Aug. 3.
Japanese and Chinese coast guard boats found themselves both rushing to a mysterious yacht near the East China Sea's disputed islands Saturday, kicking off what is normally a busy season for the small but hotly contested archipelago.
According to the coast guard, the boat had sailed away from the islands as of Monday, but the four Chinese coast guard ships were still nearby.
Security experts in Japan say that the recent consolidation of China's maritime law enforcement system could also increase activity in the waters. China merged four separate departments in charge of policing the high seas under the State Oceanic Administration on July 22, according to state media.
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Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, left, inspects Japan Coast Guard patrol vessel Ishigaki in Ishigaki, on the Japanese southwestern island of Okinawa prefecture, on July 17.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took his campaign to the frontlines, literally, of the standoff with China, making an usual trip to distant islands of Okinawa just four days before Sunday's national elections.
The first stop on Mr. Abe's island-hopping tour on Wednesday was Ishigaki, whose city limits include a chain of uninhabited islands at the heart of Japan's bitter territorial dispute with China. There, he boarded one of the Coast Guard ships used to patrol the sensitive waters around the islands known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, and spoke to the crew.
"Provocations on our territorial land, waters and sovereignty are continuing," the prime minister said, without naming the source of such provocations. "I highly appreciate all the efforts you are making to patrol our territorial waters." Donning a Coast Guardsman's hat, the prime minister added: "Without a question, Senkaku is Japan's unique territory, historically and in terms of international law. We have absolutely no intention to retreat, even by an inch."
It was the first time a serving prime minister has visited Ishigaki – one of the bigger outer islands of the Okinawa island chain. Okinawa and nearby islands were returned to Japan in 1972 after the postwar occupation by the U.S.
The next stop was Miyako, an island to the east. There, Mr. Abe headed to the camp of the Air Self-Defense Force, which serves as the main radar site for the surveillance of the maritime and air activities around the areas of contention in the East China Sea.
"The importance of this base is only growing. It's literally the cornerstone of our efforts for intelligence gathering, surveillance and reconnaissance activities," the prime minister told the troops.
Japan's defense officials are also studying the possibilities of building new military facilities on Miyako, as well as on Ishigaki, as parts of Japan's efforts to strengthen defense of its southwest.
By Joelle Metcalfe
Chinese marine surveillance ship sails near Japan Coast Guard vessel and a Japanese fishing boat near Uotsuri island, one of the disputed islands, in the East China Sea on July 1.
"With the expansion and increase in China's activity, the East China Sea is a region that has been gaining attention from inside the country and out," wrote Naoki Horimoto, a Self Defense force tactical coordinator, in a personal column in Japan's 2013 Defense White Paper released Tuesday. "My mission is to conduct surveillance of the East China Sea with the P-3C aircraft," the lieutenant commander added in the essay, combined with a photo of him tucked into a bright red seat in the jet. "I identify a large number of military and government ships from other countries sailing around in the East China Sea and assess the situation."
The first-person account of life on the front lines is just one example of the document's strong emphasis on China, a contrast with last year's white paper columns, which generally avoided naming China directly, referring instead indirectly to "neighboring countries" and "increased activity in the southwest region."
JRT ran a comparison of Japan's defense white papers from this year, and last. Some other notable changes:
–In the 2012 white paper, the China section of the summary digest was just one page, with a map and no text. This year's digest devotes two full pages to China, with a 10-point essay detailing Beijing's "assertive" attitude, branding its actions "extremely deplorable."
–The section on defending territorial waters and airspace is seven pages long, up from three pages last year. There's a new chart included this year that shows the frequency of Chinese incursions highlighted in pink. In addition to flagging activity around the Senkaku/Diaoyu area, the white paper makes a point of flagging the incursion of a Chinese nuclear powered submarine in territorial waters near Okinawa almost 10 years ago — something not mentioned in last year's report.
–Both the 2012 and 2013 reports include a bar graph on the numbers of times SDF fighter jets scrambled to fend off foreign planes. But last year's graphic was small, nestled into the upper right-hand corner of the page, and understated, with countries marked in pastel colors. China was represented by pale pink. This year, the graph fills half a page and shows the spike in SDF scrambles against Chinese planes in bold bright red.
–A new box introduced for the 2013 report shows Chinese planes' flight patterns with pictures of five Chinese aircraft including fighter jets such as the Chengdu J-10 and Xian JH-7 with the caption: "Chinese planes thought to be conducting activity in the East China Sea."
Rear Admiral of Escort Flotilla 2 Hideki Yuasa also wrote a short piece about the joint US-Japan military drill "Dawn Blitz" that occurred at Camp Pendleton in June; the exercise tested the ability of the Self Defense Forces to conduct amphibious assault to retake invaded islands and the firing ability of the guided missile destroyer Atago. China protested the drill, held a week after Xi Jinping's visit to the United States at a base an hour's drive away from the Sunnylands Estate where he spent the weekend with President Barack Obama.
This year's white paper drew criticism from Beijing. "We hope that the Japanese side can adopt a more proper attitude and make efforts to improve political trust and enhance regional peace and stability," Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Hua Chunying said Tuesday when asked about the report.
The white paper comes as tensions in the East China Sea — which seemed to have receded a bit — appear to be rising again.
Last Monday marked the 50th incursion of Chinese marine surveillance ships into Japan's territorial waters since Japan nationalized the islands last September. That coincided with a visit by a group of four Japanese vessels carrying 30 Japanese activists from the right-wing political association "Gambare Nippon!" who went to fish in the area.
NHK took aerial footage of showing close proximity between the Chinese and Japanese ships, which the political group posted on their public Facebook page.
Meantime, the Action Committee for Defending the Diaoyu Islands, an anti-Japan group based in Hong Kong, told both Chinese and Japanese media that they plan to make a trip to the islands in August. The same group landed on an islet of the disputed chain last year and was arrested by the Japan Coast Guard for violating immigration laws.
Last week also marked an uptick in China's resource exploration in the contested area. A Bahamas-registered vessel called the Discoverer 2, belonging to a Chinese oil company, was spotted dropping cables into Japan's exclusive economic zone (EEZ) about 130 kilometers from disputed territory.
The Japanese government also strongly protested the latest Chinese attempt to construct a drilling rig about 33 kilometers away from a natural gas field called Kashi by the Japanese and Tianwaitian by the Chinese on the disputed Japan-China median line in the East China Sea.
A screenshot shows photos posted to Sina Weibo of a protest against economist Mao Yushi in Henan province. The banner at top reads: "Denounce the traitor Mao!"
Liberal economist Mao Yushi is used to ruffling feathers on occasion. But lately he has made some of China's hawks even more agitated than usual.
In a campaign that some have likened to the political persecution that took place under the Cultural Revolution, the 84-year-old scholar has been the target of abusive, late-night phone calls, a wave of attacks on microblogs as well as disruptions of his lectures. He has been denounced as a traitor and targeted by demonstrators.
"I'm getting angry phone calls at two o'clock in the morning," he says with a sigh.
"There's your GDP," wrote another microblogger, appending a picture of a shopper buying fish, supposedly caught somewhere near the Diaoyus.
Mr. Mao has been the subject of insults online for years, thanks largely to his criticisms of the other Mao, but recently the online anger has spilled over into offline protests. One of the economist's lectures was briefly disrupted late last month and another this month had to be switched to a smaller, safer venue for fears of similar tactics by angry leftist opponents.
Pictures posted on Sina Weibo showed protesters holding red flags with Chairman Mao's picture and white banners with slogans such as "Down with the traitor supported by the U.S." and "Be on guard against Mao Yushi who calls on others to overthrow the Communist Party and turn China into Syria."
The outpouring of venom is somewhat surprising considering that most of Mr. Mao's recent public statements haven't been especially inflammatory. But perhaps it was not so much what Mr.Mao has had to say as when he said it. With a new generation of leaders recently arrived in Beijing, China's intellectuals have been fighting over what the country's priorities should be as it grapples with a host of challenges including slower economic growth, a widening wealth gap and growing discontent over a deeply polluted environment.
At the same time, many of China's neighbors are voicing their increasing anxieties over Beijing's willingness to flex its political muscles as it expands its interests abroad.
Influential left-wing blogger Sima Nan alluded to this when he joined the chorus of criticism saying: "At this extremely exceptional.. and complicated political juncture (Mr. Mao) pretends to be an economist but is in fact a hypocrite… Cursing Mao is his habit."
Talking the Journal, Mr. Mao dismissed the attacks on him as "childish." They may also end up being counter-productive, as some of the tactics used in harassing the professor have begun to provoke comparisons with political smear campaigns of the past – not the sort of association that's likely to win over too many hearts and minds in the China of today.
"I though the Cultural Revolution was long gone, then I turn my head and there it is right beside me," one Sina Weibo user wrote earlier this week in response to Mr. Mao's recounting of a series of nasty phone calls he'd gotten.
Perhaps his critics might benefit from the advice of yet another microblogger who appeared uneasy with the tenor of the attacks: "Please treat this old man nicely, although we don't have to agree with him."
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Amid a long-running territorial dispute between China and Japan over a small group of uninhabited islands, the Chinese Communist Party's main propaganda organ is questioning Tokyo's historical claim on another piece of land long important to U.S. defense strategy: Okinawa.
The People's Daily newspaper on page nine of Wednesday's edition ran a lengthy and winding commentary by scholars at a prominent state-run think tank that called for a "reconsideration" of the historical status of Japan's southernmost Ryukyu island chain, which includes Okinawa. The researchers argued foreign aggression toward China during its final Qing dynasty (1644-1911) weakened it to the point where it couldn't sufficiently oppose aggressive Japanese inroads in the broader region.
Mr. Li, a researcher at the state-run Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said the ongoing territorial dispute prompted his commentary. "We're pointing out the facts, telling the Japanese government that if there are questions about the Ryukyus, then they can't even begin to talk about the Diaoyus," he said.
Following World War II, Okinawa emerged as a key base of U.S. military operations in the Asia-Pacific region, and it is a cornerstone of the longstanding U.S.-Japan security alliance. But the U.S. military has long faced local resistance from those who feel the island has shouldered too much of the burden for the U.S. presence in Japan. The U.S. and Japan have recently stressed the island's defensive role to local residents, citing rising tensions with China and North Korea and the role it has long played in U.S. regional defense strategy.
The islands were an independent kingdom for part of their history and a vassal state of both China and Japan during the 19th century, though Japanese and Chinese historians bicker over the details. They were formally annexed by Japan in the late 19th century.
Wednesday's commentary went too far for some in the Chinese public, who mocked it on the popular Sina Weibo microblogging service.
"Everything under heaven belongs to us," went one response.
"Are we as unhinged as North Korea? Why don't we take back Mongolia while we're at it?" went another.
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BRUSSELS—Euro-zone governments capped another tumultuous year on Thursday with deals to more tightly control their biggest banks and keep their bailout of Greece on track, but face a new set of challenges in 2013.
Euro-zone finance ministers on Thursday backed the release of long-delayed aid payments to Greece, saying the first batch of money will be sent to Athens in the coming days. WSJ's Charles Forelle reports on the News Hub. Photo: REUTERS.
An accord among European Union finance ministers creates a single policeman to oversee the biggest and riskiest banks in the 17-nation currency bloc. That marks a crucial step toward addressing a root cause of Europe's debt crisis, and offers the prospect of breaking the mutual dependence between weak banks and struggling governments that has sapped confidence in Europe's common currency.
Also Thursday, euro zone finance ministers agreed to release some €34 billion ($44.45 billion) of new bailout loans for Greece, which should ease a severe cash crunch and lift concerns about a near-term exit from the euro-zone. Officials earmarked an extra €14.8 billion of loans for the first quarter of 2013.
"Those Cassandras have been proven wrong," said Olli Rehn, the European Union economics commission referring to those who forecast a Greek exit from the euro this year.
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At their last summit of 2012 on Thursday and Friday—which started hours after finance ministers reached the bank-supervision accord—European Union leaders backed another element of a proposed euro-zone banking union: the creation of a single resolution mechanism to be in charge of stabilizing or winding down failing banks. Talks over that will start in earnest next year.
José Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission, described the resolution mechanism as "the next important building block of our banking union."
The leaders also agreed they would discuss further measures to coordinate economic policies, including the possible creation of a small common budget to provide incentives for economic reform—but not until their summit next June, a later date than expected.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said any common funding would involve "a very limited budget. Not three digit billions, rather 10 or 15 or 20 billion euros."
The leaders of Britain, Croatia, Germany and Finland met Thursday in Brussels at the start of a two-day summit that is the last this year. Associated Press
The decision on the bank supervisor leaves much work to be done until the euro-zone bailout fund will be able to effectively shield governments from the fallout of expensive bank failures. That step, key to breaking the destabilizing link between weak banks and weak governments, seems unlikely to occur before March 2014.
The prospect of breaking that link had been a major reason for setting up the single supervisor—on the basis that devolving some financial responsibility for banks to the euro-zone bailout fund required banks to be policed at the euro-zone level—and has helped to calm financial markets. But rich countries like Germany, Finland and the Netherlands have lobbied to delay that move.
"The owners and the investors must suffer first; second the country must suffer; and then we have to look if the resolution mechanism funded by the banks themselves is participating…and then we can look at direct recapitalizations," said Finnish Prime Ministers Jyrki Katainen, in an attempt to explain how direct recapitalization of banks would be a last resort. A raft of challenges, meanwhile, lies ahead to preserve the euro in 2013. "To say that everything is over now would be wrong—despite Christmas," Germany's Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble told reporters in Brussels.
Elections in Italy—where former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's return to the political stage upset financial markets this week—are due early next year. Investors are watching closely for any signs of instability in Italy, the state with the Europe's heaviest debt burden, apart from Greece.
Elections in Germany in the fall are also expected to make Ms. Merkel's government—which sets the pace of negotiations—even more reluctant to make financial commitments that would bring the euro-zone economies closer together.
More fundamentally, the euro zone is again in recession, with unpredictable consequences for national and European politics.
Another test is expected in Spain. The Spanish government's heavy financing requirements for next year suggest to many analysts that it can't continue through next year without some form of official help.
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The ministers also agreed Thursday that their governments must try to hash out the final framework of the supervisor with the European Parliament, and create many of the rules that accompany the new oversight regime, by the end of March. "The earlier we start turning this into reality…the better," said Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann, as he arrived for the summit.
Finance ministers said they expected the ECB to take over supervision of many of the euro zone's banks at the earliest by March 2014 from national supervisors. It will start scrutinizing banks as early as March 2013, but in most cases it will still depend on national authorities to enforce its will. During 14 hours of talks, ministers had to resolve many tricky issues, including what banks would come under direct ECB oversight.
Non-euro states can sign up for the new supervisory regime if they want to, but so far none has firmly committed, while the U.K., Sweden and the Czech Republic have ruled it out.
Once fully up and running, the ECB will be able to give out and take away banking licenses, force lenders to boost their capital buffers or restrict risky lending practices. The hope is that closer oversight will prevent systemic banking crises, like the ones that have hit Ireland, Spain and Cyprus over the past few years.
In the end, they decided that the ECB would take direct responsibility for banks that fulfill at least one of the following criteria: their assets are bigger than €30 billion or make up at least 20% of their home country's gross domestic product, they have already received indirect help from the euro-zone rescue fund or have significant cross-border operations.
Those criteria would include around 180 banks in the euro zone, holding some 90% of the bloc's banking assets, according to Brussels-based economic think tank Bruegel.
"Problems coming from 10% of assets can still be very significant," Bruegel researchers said in a note. "But overall, it is a big achievement that the ECB will have direct oversight over such a big proportion of assets."
The deal on the supervisor's scope was a victory for Germany. All but one of its local savings banks, which together hold more than €1 trillion ($1.3 trillion) in assets, will likely remain under the auspices of their national supervisor.
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble said the ECB wouldn't be able to force change on individual lenders outside its reach, but could make demands for groups of banks.
In return, the euro zone's biggest economy retreated from one of its other demands, that supervision had to be strictly separated from monetary policy—the ECB's main task. Final supervisory decisions will still have to approved by the ECB's governing council, which also sets interest rates for the euro zone.
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