The Japanese deployed a garrison near the islands claimed by China.

Around 200, Japanese troops are stationed on the most western island of the country, Yonaguni, located near the territory, the rights to which are disputed by China, reports TASS.

The duties of the military "include the maintenance of a radar station, designed to control the nearby waters of the East China Sea and the airspace, in addition, the garrison must repel the assault landing and hold out until reinforcements arrive," the report said.

This is the uninhabited Senkaku Islands in 150-km north of Yonaguni, which are controlled by Japan. However, this does not prevent Beijing to lay claim to them. Chinese watchdogs often defiantly enter a zone that Tokyo considers to be its territorial waters.

Japan had no strongholds in this area before. “Now, in addition to Yonaguni, military garrisons are also planned to be deployed on other islands, Miyako and Ishigaki, which are known for their beaches and hotels,” the agency said.

Comments

[Vend]

US samurai were ordered to provoke China. Oh well

[AlexTires]

I dare to suggest that the United States has nothing to do with it, for Japan has its own interest in these waters, similar to that of the Kuril Islands

[Kent0001]

But they so brazenly do not climb the Kuril Islands .... historical memory .....

[Proxima]

Quote: Kent0001

But they so brazenly do not climb the Kuril Islands .... historical memory .....

The Chinese may also have a historical memory, for example, the Nanking massacre of 1937, when the Japanese, having captured Nanking, brutally killed about 200 thousand civilians. And the Chinese, for something, they know how to wait, endure and revenge.

[Dryuya2]

Quote: Proxima

Nanjing massacre of 1937,

informative - terrible - just in case 18+

[RUSS]

Quote: Kent0001

But they so brazenly do not climb the Kuril Islands .... historical memory .....

And how do you imagine it is possible today for the Japanese to "brazenly climb" the Kuril Islands?
It is one thing to share a rock controversial with the Chinese in the sea, rather than be suicidal and try your hand at "carving up" the Russian Kuriles.

[Proxima]

Quote: AlexTires

Japan has its interest in these waters

Hmm, the "famous" Sino-Japanese relations. Even, as it turned out, a tiger with a goat is able to peacefully resolve any issues, but not the Japanese with the Chinese.

[Karlovar]

In the historical context (taking into account that statehood, technology and culture were introduced to the Japanese islands by Korean and Chinese colonists (even today there are Yakuza clans led by descendants of Chinese settlers, many aristocratic Japanese clans have Korean roots), they took an active part in the formation of the Japanese ethnos Korean, Chinese colonists and local indigenous tribes) Japan in relations with Korea and China is the same as the current Ukraine in relations with Russia, the analogy is almost complete: Ukrainian-de-Russified Russian, Japanese-decaritized, partially Korean decorated (about 20 percent) , partly Chinese (10 percent under), partly aboriginal islands ...

[oleg-gr]

As there is in the old joke about the Chinese: we go to the border in small groups of 2-3 million each. The most interesting - for what period of time is the defense of this garrison designed for 200 people? I'd love to know.

[Vend]

Quote: AlexTires

I dare to suggest that the United States has nothing to do with it, for Japan has its own interest in these waters, similar to that of the Kuril Islands

You may be right, but Japan does not have an army as such, but China does. What do the Japanese hope for? On NATO i.e. in the USA.

[Talgat]

Quote: Wend

but Japan doesn’t have an army as such, but China has

Not certainly in that way

Japan has a strong fleet and China so far is only catching up

[Talgat]

Quote: AlexTires

The USA has nothing to do with it, for Japan has its own interest in these waters.

Actually, Japan’s interest is good neighborly relations. From them, and so on, all the neighbors are terrified and experience only historical hatred - everything from Koreans to Chinese and further down the Pacific Ocean. Everyone remembers the atrocities of the Japanese military.

Namely, the USA encourages and actually pushes Japan into conflict with all neighbors around

As a result, the Yapis want Russia from the Kuril Islands from China to these Chinese islands, etc.

One thing is consoling - neither for Russia nor for Eurasia as a whole, the Pacific Ocean will be a "moment of truth" - as it looks like China will bear the main burden of the confrontation with the aggressive US and Japan. China has already determined the role of all of us - the allied reliable rear. But still I think it will not be superfluous. if at least some Pacific Fleet Russia will have there - at least cover its own coast - and not ask the Chinese

[__VESCT0R__]

Moreover, moreover! This is the main US strategy of influencing Japan, forcing them to conflict with everyone, not allowing them to establish normal economic relations with countries. Remember, they and the Kuril Islands were not needed at first. Firstly, materials about the occupation of the Kuril Islands appeared in the US press, and only then did the Japanese begin to show rights to them.

[Dam]

But they won’t fight.

[jjj]

Once, Japan already deployed its garrisons on the skeletons. Hiroshima and Nagasaki later licked their tongues

[Karelian]

And also garrisons were present on the Kuril Islands and Sakhalin!

[Lord of the Sith]

By the way, I recently reviewed "The Thin Red Line !, I advise anyone who has not seen it."

[Samen]

I sit on the "point", and wondering thought:
Why did these rocks surrender to a samurai?

[RUSS]

Quote: Semen

I sit on the "point", and wondering thought:
Why did these rocks surrender to a samurai?

Resources -
The background to the dispute is known, and we will not touch upon it. Apart from the national pride of the two Asian powers and the ancient mutual hostility of Japan and China, the most reasonable explanation for the dispute will be, as usual, economic. Senkaku is far from Eldorado, but there is something to fight for in the East China Sea. The most affordable and cheapest resource is a fishwhich is abundant there. But this, in every sense, is only a snack. According to the US Energy Information Administration, the East China Sea shelf stores 100-160 billion barrels of oil, which the Chinese and Japanese are forced to buy at distant lands. The PRC's oil and gas reserves in the region will last eighty years, and Japan will be able to heat it with gas for a century. Not far from Senkaku, by the way, there is a promising gas field Chunxiao, which the Chinese, together with Royal Dutch Shell and Unocal, are preparing to develop.
Back in the waters of the archipelago full of metals. In Tokyo, it was estimated that Japan’s scarcity of Senkaku resources would last 1300 years, manganese for 320 years, and nickel for 100 years. The cost of any raw materials, however, will be higher than usual: offshore production is not cheap, and in the heated atmosphere of diplomatic conflicts, either side will have a lot of problems and unforeseen expenses.

The East China Sea also hides another interesting and yet little-known resource: in Japan, it is believed that there are gas hydrateswhich have already been nicknamed "flammable ice" and "fuel of the future." The enthusiasm of the media, of course, must be divided by at least two, but a breakthrough comparable to the shale is quite possible. So far, gas hydrates have been of little concern to anyone, but now Japan is interested in them, which is at the forefront of the development of new technology. In trial mode, it is already extracting gas hydrates, and by 2018 it wants to develop know-how for the industrial production of this fuel. The government approved a special plan of action for this, and Senkaku is mentioned in it: the study of the archipelago for gas hydrate deposits is in full swing.

[siberalt]

The Japanese are obsessed with the islands. Throughout the Pacific, they have thousands of them! If all of them are marked on the map with flags, it turns out that up to Australia itself is solid Japan. Better let them watch in that direction, from where it came to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

[Mama_Cholli]

Their duties include: "not to repel an attempt to land an assault force and hold out until the arrival of reinforcements," but the duty to dig graves for themselves and their comrades ...

[NDR-791]

In your minuses, as well as in mine, I did not doubt at all! This topic has gone from the first line! Oh, and keeps track of the "little brother with a slanting eye" publications about himself, his beloved. However, minus do not minus, you will still get a sickle (and a hammer).

[Berserks]

Oh, this is a kamikaze squad!

[Abbra]

The Chinese objectively troll the Japanese, understanding well how important each piece of land is to them.

[gergi]

China is a country winner. Japan, the loser, the occupied country. You samurai, who are you springing the tail on ?!

[RUSS]

Quote: gergi

You samurai, who are you springing the tail on ?!

Samurai were brought out as a "class" 200 years ago, if they had remained, I think the samurai did not allow strangers from overseas to dominate Japan.

[Karlovar]

During the Meiji revolution, the samurai were thinned out both physically and psychologically ... The film "The Last Samurai" with Cruz is about that time.

[dchegrinec]

Garrison of "terrible" Japanese! And what can they do there? Except to chuckle.

[Abbra]

Judging by the history of World War II, the Japanese are very strong and dangerous. Although, after they forgave the US nuclear attacks on them, and in addition they began to openly lick their famous place, I thought about the samurai and became disappointed in them.

[Galich Kos]

Quote: Abbra

Judging by the history of World War II, the Japanese are very strong and dangerous.

Right. But China is not the same. I think in cunning and cunning, China will not yield to Japan.

[Karlovar]

When China was already insidious and cunning, had civilization, technology, science, culture, states, cities, indigenous tribes in the Japanese islands lived hunting and fishing in the forests.

[Karlovar]

In principle, this does not contradict their code ... The samurai must faithfully serve the master ... When the old master dies, they serve the new. It has always been in their history (almost continuous history of internecine wars) ...

[nazar_0753]

I don’t know who is provoking anyone there, this is still a big question. But I can confidently say that nothing good will end

[vsdvs]

And here you will not fight! .

[Arkan]

The Japanese are pressed, with a soft spot, to the warm American wall, without it, the Chinese would have sent the samurai long ago. The wall itself is already reeling, and the Chinese know how to wait.

[NDR-791]

The duties of the military “include servicing a radar station designed to control the nearby waters of the East China Sea and airspace, in addition, the garrison must repel an attempt to land and hold out until reinforcements arrive”
It is treated with one anti-radar missile (along with the garrison). Interestingly, the Kuril Islands or Sakhalin have such a target?

[drilled]

Eee, Japs))) The Chinese have not forgotten the Second World. You will be cut with dull knives

[Karlovar]

By the way, the Japanese elites Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I give the finger to the clipping, also did not forget ... It just did not come time (situation) for revenge. The Japanese also know how to wait, revenge is a dish served cold.

[hartlend]

Just rattling a weapon. Neither one nor the other will go to a direct military conflict.

[qwert111]

200 soldiers on uninhabited islands. I wonder how this time it will be, they will not forget as junior lieutenant Hiro Onoda, who surrendered to the Philippine authorities 28 years after the end of the war.

[Mordvin 3]

The last German garrison in the amount of 12 people, during World War II, surrendered in the autumn of 45. They also sat on the forgotten island of God, they caught fish. Their radio station broke down, and everyone forgot about them.

[iliitchitch]

And if China and Japan cling to because of eight cobblestones? Certainly, Uncle Sam's navel is getting ready to tear, everywhere they stick a sting.

[Karlovar]

About a few years ago, the Americans (CIA) convicted the Japanese of conducting secret negotiations with the Chinese (somewhere at the level of deputy ministers), the Japanese excused themselves, supposedly solving issues on the disputed islands, and they had to do it secretly from the USA! Now think about what the Japanese and Chinese could really secretly talk about behind the back of the US?

[13 warrior]

Well, actually, they have already written about the escalation of the situation in this corner of the globe. These actions by Japan are just an illustration. Yes, yes, another hotbed of tension is being created. Our "bloody hebne" represented by the SVR and their colleagues in the GRU will have more work to do.

[guzik007]

So I thought, if you roll this island with bulldozers to a level of + 6-7 meters on the water, then a decent block of land will turn out, ten times more than the original.

[semuel]

It’s such Japanese fun to tease the Chinese.

[akudr48]

It would be nice if the second clashed with the third ...

According to the logic of the 2nd, the 6th will sit on the shore, watching the corpses 2 and 3 swim along the river.

Although it looks like a fairy tale, with the potential to become true.

[bad]

.. well-well .. and we will strengthen the Kuril Islands .. so .. just in case ..

[demiurg]

In Japan, elections are coming soon, does someone create a name for himself as a fighter for territory?
1.3 billion against 145 million of which almost a quarter are pensioners, my God, they are not America, the Chinese will get them to swim, wring Okinawa and give us Hokkaido. Or think that the stars and stripes will intervene for them? And are they more important for the USA than China?

[igorek4515]

Quote: demiurg

Lord, they’re not America, the Chinese will swim to them, they will squeeze Okinawa and at the same time give us Hokkaido.

And for what kind of beautiful eyes do the Chinese give you Hokkaido ..? keep your pocket wider .. You don’t know the Chinese yet .. If they took something then they’ll give a damn when they give it to someone .. This is not Yeltsin or Mendvedev ..

[Turkir]

the garrison is obliged to repel an attempt to land and hold out until reinforcements arrive ”

..from USA?

[sa-ag]

area for the duty of their NPS-type Soryu?

[tundra]

About 200 Japanese troops stationed on the westernmost island of Yonaguni, located near the territory, the rights to which are disputed by China, /////
Territory is marked
We’ll see whose dog is meaner.

[atamankko]

And, as always, the exceptional ones are also here.

[UpgradeComplete]

Quote: Dryuya2

Quote: Proxima

Nanjing massacre of 1937,

informative - terrible - just in case 18+

And some feel sorry for the Japanese, but they had not two, but more atomic bombs to be thrown off, the Chinese would have approved ...

[Ros 56]

You guys started this in vain, there are more than 1 Chinese per 12 Japanese, and the Japanese population is declining, and the Chinese were allowed to give birth to two children, but there was one.

[Zomanus]

For China, these islands are very critical, since who owns them,
that in theory can block the sea route to China.
Although these islands are well, very far from the Chinese coast.

[marder4]

Japs already had time to quarrel with everyone