How to solve the issue of the Senkaku Islands: Japan justifiably claims sovereignty

Protests in China are continuing over this month’s collision of a Chinese fishing vessel with two Japan Coast Guard patrol ships near the Senkaku Islands in Okinawa Prefecture and the arrest of the trawler’s captain. The Japanese Communist Party issued a statement in 1972 making clear that the Senkakus are Japan’s territory. Based on this statement, this article explores the way to solve the problem.

Kan, the executor of old-style politics: Shii

Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo has described Prime Minister Kan Naoto, reelected as Democratic Party of Japan president in the one-on-one battle with former DPJ Secretary General Ozawa Ichiro, as the “executor of old-style politics”, the successor to politics led by the previous ruling Liberal Democratic Party.