SF Bay Area Chinese-Americans protest Japan's purchase of disputed islands

[AsahinaKimi]

SAN FRANCISCO -- Joining large, angry demonstrations in Asia, Chinese-Americans from throughout the Bay Area massed in this city's Chinatown on Saturday to denounce Japan's purchase of an island chain that has long been the focus of a bitter dispute between that nation and China.

A few thousand people crammed into Portsmouth Square at the base of Chinatown to clap, chant and cheer as a series of speakers decried Japan's announcement Tuesday that it had bought the three uninhabited East China Sea islands, called Diaoyu in China and Senkaku in Japan.

Hoisting banners and signs reviling Japan's action as well as its bloody occupation of China during World War II, the protesters paraded down nearby streets.

Japan's Kyodo News agency said more than 60,000 people also protested in at least 28 Chinese cities, making the anti-Japanese demonstrations the largest since the two countries normalized diplomatic relations in 1972.


more..http://www.contracostatimes.com/nation-world/ci_21553810/bay-area-chinese-americans-protest-japans-purchase-disputed?source=inthenews

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I am saddened by this...

[loli phabay]

1. cant figure out who did they buy them from?

[AsahinaKimi]

2. Story I had read had said

They were purchased from a Japanese family who had lived there. What saddens me most are stories like this:

http://www.anime-island.org/?p=2722

and the photos about burning down businesses from this website:




http://blog.esuteru.com/archives/6609419.html


I hope no one is violent here.

[loli phabay]

3. so they were owned by some japanese who sold them to other japanese, okay go figure

[AsahinaKimi]

6. Its truly sad that

it has stirred up all kinds of anger, to the point of destroying property, and physically hurting someone for just owning a Japanese import.

[Dash87]

4. So, they're upset that Japan bought a couple of useless rocks?

[AsahinaKimi]

5. basically...

I have seen photos of the islands..you could walk from one end to the other without breaking a sweat. The islands, on the map are closer to Taiwan than to China.



here is more:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/9545254/Anti-Japan-protests-erupt-in-dozens-of-Chinese-cities-in-disputed-islands-row.html

[loli phabay]

7. probuably oil in them waters or something, same thing with the argiintinians and the falklands

[AsahinaKimi]

8. Fishing actually

Its a major fishing spot. Chinese sent fishing boats there with armed escort..not good.

[JI7]

9. why do they care, even if they were Chinese nationals i don't know why they would care