> 毅然たる姿勢を貫き通せ【尖閣借り上げ問題】
> （産経 2003.01.07 社説１）
センセー、しつもーーん！
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日本政府が沖縄・尖閣諸島の魚釣島など三島を民間の所有者から借り上げている問題で、中国政府が抗議をエスカレートさせている。中国の抗議に屈することは、大きな禍根を残すだろう。
中国外務省は三日、アジア局副局長が日本の公使に抗議したのに続き、五日未明には王毅外務次官が阿南惟茂大使を呼び、「誤ったやり方」の是正を求めた。異例の日曜日未明の呼び出しは、中国側の不満の強さを示したかったのだろうが、適切さを欠いている。阿南大使が「中国の主張は根拠がなく、受け入れることはできない」と述べたことは当然である。
中国は一九九二年に尖閣諸島(中国名・釣魚島)を領海法で中国領土と明記した。
そもそも尖閣諸島をめぐる領土問題など存在しない。存在するかのように扱う中国政府の意図を見抜き、断固として国を守るという気概が今は必要なときだ。
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何で「中華民国」には言わないんですかー？
（あどけない瞳で）
> （産経 2003.01.07 社説１）
センセー、しつもーーん！
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日本政府が沖縄・尖閣諸島の魚釣島など三島を民間の所有者から借り上げている問題で、中国政府が抗議をエスカレートさせている。中国の抗議に屈することは、大きな禍根を残すだろう。
中国外務省は三日、アジア局副局長が日本の公使に抗議したのに続き、五日未明には王毅外務次官が阿南惟茂大使を呼び、「誤ったやり方」の是正を求めた。異例の日曜日未明の呼び出しは、中国側の不満の強さを示したかったのだろうが、適切さを欠いている。阿南大使が「中国の主張は根拠がなく、受け入れることはできない」と述べたことは当然である。
中国は一九九二年に尖閣諸島(中国名・釣魚島)を領海法で中国領土と明記した。
そもそも尖閣諸島をめぐる領土問題など存在しない。存在するかのように扱う中国政府の意図を見抜き、断固として国を守るという気概が今は必要なときだ。
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何で「中華民国」には言わないんですかー？
（あどけない瞳で）
その通りじゃん。日本の右翼はよく「中国は●●年
資源埋蔵の可能性（その他）がわかるまで尖閣諸島
の領有権問題を持ち出したことはなかった」云々と
モットモらしいこと言ってますけど。
お・前・ら・だ・っ・て
そうだろう。え？
沖縄返還以前からセンカクなんて島知ってた日本人、
何人いるんだ、え？
Diaoyu islet leased to Japan since 1972
---The territorial dispute escalates as Tokyo reveals it has been renting Kuba as a possible military exercise base for US troops
（South China Morning Post 2003.01.09 China）
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE in Tokyo
Amid a raging territorial dispute with its neighbours, Tokyo has revealed it has been leasing an islet in the disputed Diaoyu chain for more than three decades.
"We are leasing the island as a possible military exercise ground for US troops," said a spokesman for the Defence Facilities Administration Agency, which has been paying for the lease from its own budget.
He said Tokyo had begun leasing uninhabited Kuba Island in May 1972, when Washington returned the southern prefecture of Okinawa to Japan.
At the time, Kuba belonged to a Japanese family - the Kuriharas - who also owned three other islets in the five-island chain. The fifth islet is owned by Japan's Finance Ministry.
After the original contract for Kuba expired in 1992, another was signed, which could be extended up to 20 years, the official said yesterday.
The US military has not used the island since May 1978. "But we are keeping it available for them," the spokesman added.
The revelation followed a report in the Yomiuri newspaper on January 1 that Japan had leased three uninhabited islands off its southwestern coast in a bid to strengthen its claim on the chain. It prompted angry responses from Beijing and Taipei, which both insist the islands belong to them.
On Monday, Tokyo rejected a protest by Beijing, which said the lease was "not acceptable".
Beijing also blasted as "invalid" Japan's leasing of the fourth islet. "The Diaoyu Island and its adjacent islets have been a part of Chinese territory since ancient times. Any unilateral action taken by the Japanese side on these islets is invalid," the Foreign Ministry said.
Tokyo continues to insist that both history and international law prove the islets are part of Japanese territory.
China ceded the islands with Taiwan to Japan in 1895. They were put under US control after World War II and were returned to Japanese hands in 1972.
The dispute over the islands erupted on the international stage after a United Nations economic report suggested in 1968 that there were oil deposits under the East China Sea.
The Yomiuri, citing the Defence Facilities Administration Agency and other sources, said a 20-year rental contract was signed between the government and Kuba's "landlord" in 1972.
Although the ownership of the island changed in 1978, 1988 and 1989 due to inheritance and other reasons, the contract was taken over by successive owners, the report added.
When the first contract expired in 1992, both parties signed a new 20-year contract, the Yomiuri said.
"However, the owner did not agree to register the lease, so the government's right as leaseholder has not been registered," the paper added.