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Japan PM warns Chinese over landing on disputed islands

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Japans prime minister Shinzo Abe poses with members of Japanese idol group Momoiro Clover Z. Photograph: Reuters

David McNeill, Clifford Coonan

Asias two economic giants Japan and China squared off against each other over a chain of disputed islands and a visit to a controversial shrine to Japanese war dead that angers many in China and other parts of the continent.

Japans prime minister Shinzo Abe upped the ante in a simmering territorial row with Beijing by vowing to expel any Chinese who attempt to land on the islands, known as the Senkakus in Japan and the Diaoyu islands in China.

The warning, issued after Chinas latest incursion into Japans territorial waters, is the first time Mr Abe has threatened to use force since Japan controversially nationalised the string of islands last September, which lie about 1,800 km southwest of Tokyo.

We would take decisive action against any attempt to enter our territorial waters and to land, Mr Abe told parliament yesterday.

It would be natural for us to expel by force the Chinese if they were to make a landing.

Largest incursion Japans coast guard said earlier that eight Chinese patrol ships had entered waters near the islands yesterday, the latest episode in a long-running game of cat and mouse. The incursion is the largest since the dispute began.

For its part, Chinas ambassador to Japan, Cheng Yonghua protested Japans intrusion into waters around the islands and demanded that all Japanese ships leave the waters immediately, according to a report by the Chinese state news agency Xinhua.

Correct approach Chinas State Oceanic Administration said the Chinese vessels had driven Japanese fishing boats out of waters surrounding the Diaoyu islands, thwarting the attempts of Japanese right wingers, the agency said on its website.

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China officially declares disputed Senkaku Islands as being of 'core interest'

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Tokyo, Apr. 27 (ANI): China has regarded the Japanese administered Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea as its core interest, China's foreign ministry has announced for the first time.

The Diaoyu Islands are about sovereignty and territorial integrity and is China's core interest, ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at a press conference.

According to Japan times, the statement suggests that China does not intend to make any concessions on the islands, which it claims have been its inherent territory since ancient times.

Chunying made the comment after General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, in Tokyo said that Chinese officials repeatedly told him during his visit to Beijing earlier in the week that the Senkakus are "one of China's core interests," the report said.

Japan, which has administered the islands for decades, maintains the Senkakus are an integral part of its territory and that there is no territorial dispute over them, it added. (ANI)

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The deVere Group Ventures into the Cayman Islands

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BIRKIRKARA, Malta, April 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The deVere Group Caymans Ltd will mark the company's first office in the Caribbean and will be headed by Chief Executive Officer Mr Nigel Green and long-time deVere Executive, Mr Simon Pratt.

The deVere Group Cayman Islands presence is expected to be established on West Bay Road in Grand Cayman - in the heart of the Cayman Islands' financial industry.

The deVere Group Caymans Ltd will specialise in Insurance Brokerage, whilst delivering yet another promise to its clientele to be wherever they choose to live around the world.

Nigel Green expects the 'final touches' to be finalised shortly, as the company is looking to obtain the operating licence in the coming weeks.

"Until now, despite the Cayman Islands' attraction as a tax haven for wealthy individuals, few financial advisers have sought to base themselves in the British territory. For this reason, we believe that this venture will help us bridge the gap in the market, whilst keeping in line with the company's growth objectives."

The deVere Group is the world's largest independent international financial consultancy. International investors and expatriates employ us to find financial services products that suit their medium to long term requirements for investments, savings and pensions. With in excess of US$9 billion of funds under administration and management, deVere has more than 70,000 clients in over 100 countries. Our independence and ability to offer financial products that are tailor-made to fit an individual's needs are behind our success.

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China slams Philippine bid to "legalise" occupation of islands

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BEIJING (Reuters) - China accused the Philippines on Friday of trying to legalise its occupation of islands in the disputed South China Sea, repeating that Beijing would never agree to international arbitration.

Frustrated with the slow pace of regional diplomacy, the Philippines in January angered China by asking a U.N. tribunal to order a halt to Beijing's activities that it said violated Philippine sovereignty over the islands, surrounded by potentially energy-rich waters.

Claims by an increasingly powerful China over most of the South China Sea have set it directly against U.S. allies Vietnam and the Philippines. Brunei, Taiwan and Malaysia also claim parts of the waters and China has a separate dispute with Japan in the East China Sea.

Manila said on Thursday that a U.N. arbitration court had set up the tribunal which would hear Manila's complaint, but China said this was an attempt to steal Chinese territory.

"The Philippine side is trying to use this to negate China's territorial sovereignty and attach a veneer of 'legality' to its illegal occupation of Chinese islands and reefs," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement on its website (www.mfa.gov.cn).

The Philippines must immediately withdraw personnel and facilities from the islands, the ministry added, listing those which it said Manila was occupying.

Manila asked the tribunal of the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) to order a halt to China's activities.

But the convention did not apply in this case as what the Philippines was actually asking for was a decision on sovereignty, the ministry said.

"China's refusal to accept the Philippines' request for arbitration has full grounding in international law," it said.

China had always believed that the two countries should resolve their dispute through direct talks, the ministry added.

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BEIJING (Reuters) - China accused the Philippines on Friday of trying to legalize its occupation of islands in the disputed South China Sea, repeating that Beijing would never agree to international arbitration.

Frustrated with the slow pace of regional diplomacy, the Philippines in January angered China by asking a U.N. tribunal to order a halt to Beijing's activities that it said violated Philippine sovereignty over the islands, surrounded by potentially energy-rich waters.

Claims by an increasingly powerful China over most of the South China Sea have set it directly against U.S. allies Vietnam and the Philippines. Brunei, Taiwan and Malaysia also claim parts of the waters and China has a separate dispute with Japan in the East China Sea.

Manila said on Thursday that a U.N. arbitration court had set up the tribunal which would hear Manila's complaint, but China said this was an attempt to steal Chinese territory.

"The Philippine side is trying to use this to negate China's territorial sovereignty and attach a veneer of 'legality' to its illegal occupation of Chinese islands and reefs," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement on its website (www.mfa.gov.cn).

The Philippines must immediately withdraw personnel and facilities from the islands, the ministry added, listing those which it said Manila was occupying.

Manila asked the tribunal of the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) to order a halt to China's activities.

But the convention did not apply in this case as what the Philippines was actually asking for was a decision on sovereignty, the ministry said.

"China's refusal to accept the Philippines' request for arbitration has full grounding in international law," it said.

China had always believed that the two countries should resolve their dispute through direct talks, the ministry added.

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Tensions Flare Between China and Japan Over Islands and Shrine

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Japanese vessels sailed near a Chinese surveillance ship near disputed islands called Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China on Tuesday.

TOKYO Tensions between Japan and its Asian neighbors rose on Tuesday when a large group of Japanese lawmakers paid a symbolically charged visit to a Tokyo war shrine, while Chinese paramilitary ships and a flotilla of boats carrying Japanese nationalists appeared to converge on disputed islands.

The group of 168 mostly low-ranking conservative lawmakers visited the Yasukuni Shrine in central Tokyo in what local news media described as the largest mass visit by Parliament members in recent memory. The shrine of the indigenous Shinto religion honors Japans war dead, including several who were executed as war criminals after World War II. This has made Yasukuni, and the political leaders who visit it, a target of criticism by China and South Korea, which suffered under Japans early 20th-century empire building.

Last year, a group of 81 lawmakers visited the shrine during the same season, when Yasukuni celebrates a three-day spring festival.

This years mass visit comes at a time when Japans relations with both those neighboring countries have frayed because of disputes over territory and history.

The shrine is viewed by many in China and South Korea as a symbol of how Japan remains unrepentant for its brutal wartime expansion across Asia. For many Japanese nationalists, visits to the shrine appear have become a way of standing up to what they see as the increasingly insistent demands of China, which has usurped their country as the dominant power in Asia.

Analysts said the size of the visit was partly a byproduct of Decembers landslide election victory by the conservative Liberal Democratic Party, which installed a hawkish prime minister, Shinzo Abe, and an increased number of rightists in Parliament. But they also called it the latest example of how Japanese ultraconservatives have become more vocal in recent years, amid growing unease in Japan over Chinas rising power and its increasingly forceful stance on their long-simmering dispute over the contested islands.

On Tuesday, that dispute appeared to heat up even further when the Japanese Coast Guard reported that eight Chinese patrol ships had entered waters near the islands, the largest number to appear at one time since the dispute flared up last summer. The Coast Guard said the Chinese ships converged from several different directions into waters near the uninhabited islands, known as the Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in Chinese.

The Chinese ships appeared at the same time as 10 boats carrying members of a Japanese fringe ultranationalist group also arrived off the islands. The boats were followed by Japanese Coast Guard ships apparently seeking to ensure that they did not attempt a landing, as some nationalists did last summer.

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Islands, shrine stir up anti-Japanese backlash

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TOKYO Tensions flared between Japan and its Asian neighbours after a group of Japanese legislators visited a shrine, which is seen by China and South Korea as a symbol of Japans past militarism, and Chinese patrol vessels played cat-and-mouse with a flotilla of Japanese nationalists near disputed islands in the East China Sea on Tuesday.

Beijing protested over the voyage by 10 boats carrying about 80 Japanese activists into waters near the islands, known as the Senkaku in Japan and the Diaoyu in China.

"Regarding the Japanese right-wing activists illegal entry into the waters of the Diaoyu islands that is causing trouble, the Chinese foreign ministry has lodged stern representations with Japan, and has strongly protested," Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told a news conference.

Japan also protested at what it called an intrusion by eight Chinese patrol vessels into its waters near the uninhabited Japanese-controlled islands, which are near rich fishing grounds and potentially lucrative maritime gas fields.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, pressed in parliament to say how Japan would react to a Chinese attempt to land on the tiny islands, said it would be "natural to force them to leave".

But Tokyo appeared keen to avoid a clash between the nationalists flotilla and the Chinese ships. Japans Coast Guard, which had 13 vessels shadowing the boats, urged them to leave and escorted them away.

Last year members of the same group, "Ganbare Nippon" (Stand Firm! Japan), landed on one of the rocky islets and triggered anti-Japanese protests in China, where lingering resentment over Japans wartime aggression has been rekindled in recent days.

China chastised Japan for Tuesdays visits by at least 168 legislators to Tokyos Yasukuni Shrine, which honours 14 leaders convicted as war criminals by an Allied tribunal along with Japans war dead. The pilgrimage came after Mr Abe made an offering and Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso and two other ministers visited Yasukuni at the weekend.

Homage paid by leading Japanese politicians at the Tokyo shrine typically angers Japans neighbours, who contend that it glorifies wartime aggression.

"Regardless of what method or what identity these Japanese leaders take in visiting Yasukuni Shrine, fundamentally it is intentionally denying Japans militaristic invasionist history," Ms Hua said.

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