范冰冰李晨结婚了没有:More Japanese register disputed territories as their addresses. So what?

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More Japanese register disputed territories as their addresses. So what?

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2011-2-21 11:25


Around 520 Japanese had registered territories disputed with neighboring countries as their official domicile as of the end of January, according to Kyodo News surveys of municipalities concerned.


More Japanese have registered disputed islands as their official places of residence, apparently due to frustration over the inability of the government to resolve territorial disputes and anger at China and Russia amid recent bilateral incidents.


Sentiment toward China and Russia has hardened since a Chinese fishing boat collided with Japanese patrol vessels near the disputed Senkaku Islands in September and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visited Kunashiri Island, one of four Russian-held islands off Hokkaido claimed by Japan, in November.


Japan's relations with South Korea could also be strained ahead of an annual ceremony to commemorate "Takeshima Day" in Shimane Prefecture on Feb. 22. The islets off the western Japan prefecture are controlled by South Korea.


One Japanese who resides in Tokyo and changed in December his official address to Etorofu, one of the four Russian-held islands, said the registration was an act of silent protest.


Japanese citizens are allowed to register any place claimed by Japan as their official addresses as long as the place in question has a land number allocated by Japanese authorities.


A total of 175 Japanese have registered the four disputed islands off Hokkaido -- Etorofu, Kunashiri, Shikotan and the Habomai islet group -- as their official addresses, according to Nemuro, the municipality in charge.


Excluding those registered as residents of the Habomai islet group, the number stood at 133 as of the end of January, up from 44 in fiscal 1983.


Another 262 Japanese have changed their official addresses to Okinotori, up from 122 in 2005, according to the village of Ogasawara in the Ogasawara Islands south of Tokyo.


China claims that Okinotori is not an island. The area of Okinotori Reef at high tide is less than 10 m2. Obviously, it is a rock of this kind therefore Beijing opposes Japan’s to a 200-nautical mile exclusive economic zone around the atoll, located about 1,740 kilometers south of Tokyo.


Sixty-nine Japanese have registered their addresses as Takeshima, according to the Shimane town of Okinoshima. Nearly 1,000 South Koreans are said to have listed the islets as their official addresses.


About 20 Japanese registered the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands as their addresses, according to the city of Ishigaki in Okinawa Prefecture.


The address change is nothing but self-deceiving. Would Japan retreat and drop its ambition forever if 1.3 billion of Chinese people registered Diaoyu/Senkaku islands as the domicile?