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September 16, 2010, Thursday
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A CHINESE fishing boat released by the Japanese coast guard returned home yesterday morning, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said.
The fishing boat arrived at a port in Quanzhou city in the southeastern Fujian Province at 8:30am.
The trawler was detained by the Japanese side after it collided with two Japanese Coast Guard patrol vessels on September 7.
The trawler and 14 crew members were freed and left Japan on Monday morning after China lodged stern representations with Japan.
The trawler sailed back to China under the escort of two Chinese fishery administration ships.
The 14 Chinese fishermen returned home on Monday afternoon on a chartered flight by the Chinese government.
But the captain of the trawler is still being held by Japan and could face prosecution.
China has demanded Japan immediately terminate so-called "legal procedures" against the detained captain and his safe return home as soon as possible.
The incident has led to protests in Beijing, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
According to Japanese media, Beijing police said they expect an anti-Japanese rally in the Chinese capital on Saturday. That's a sensitive date, marking the anniversary of the "9/18 Incident" in which an explosion at a Manchurian railway station led to the Japanese occupation of China's northeast in 1931.
Calls for protest marches on Saturday appeared on a Chinese website.
"Protest against the Japanese government's kidnapping of our compatriot, the fisherman, Captain Zhan Qixiong," said one statement on the website, calling for a peaceful street march.
"Protest against Japan's disregard for international law and justice through its aggressive conduct and piracy," it said.
Another briefer statement urged a protest in Nanjing, an eastern Chinese city brutally occupied by Japanese troops in 1937.
In Hong Kong yesterday, about a dozen activists scuffled with police and private security guards who blocked them from entering the downtown office building housing the Japanese Consulate.
Building security shut the elevators to the consulate.
So far, Chinese protests have been brief and involved only a dozen or so people watched by police. Activists planning to take boats to the islands have been stopped.
China has said the confrontation could damage its relations with Japan and has summoned Ambassador Uichiro Niwa five times.
Last week, China postponed talks with Japan on undersea gas exploration in the East China Sea.
The fishing boat arrived at a port in Quanzhou city in the southeastern Fujian Province at 8:30am.
The trawler was detained by the Japanese side after it collided with two Japanese Coast Guard patrol vessels on September 7.
The trawler and 14 crew members were freed and left Japan on Monday morning after China lodged stern representations with Japan.
The trawler sailed back to China under the escort of two Chinese fishery administration ships.
The 14 Chinese fishermen returned home on Monday afternoon on a chartered flight by the Chinese government.
But the captain of the trawler is still being held by Japan and could face prosecution.
China has demanded Japan immediately terminate so-called "legal procedures" against the detained captain and his safe return home as soon as possible.
The incident has led to protests in Beijing, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
According to Japanese media, Beijing police said they expect an anti-Japanese rally in the Chinese capital on Saturday. That's a sensitive date, marking the anniversary of the "9/18 Incident" in which an explosion at a Manchurian railway station led to the Japanese occupation of China's northeast in 1931.
Calls for protest marches on Saturday appeared on a Chinese website.
"Protest against the Japanese government's kidnapping of our compatriot, the fisherman, Captain Zhan Qixiong," said one statement on the website, calling for a peaceful street march.
"Protest against Japan's disregard for international law and justice through its aggressive conduct and piracy," it said.
Another briefer statement urged a protest in Nanjing, an eastern Chinese city brutally occupied by Japanese troops in 1937.
In Hong Kong yesterday, about a dozen activists scuffled with police and private security guards who blocked them from entering the downtown office building housing the Japanese Consulate.
Building security shut the elevators to the consulate.
So far, Chinese protests have been brief and involved only a dozen or so people watched by police. Activists planning to take boats to the islands have been stopped.
China has said the confrontation could damage its relations with Japan and has summoned Ambassador Uichiro Niwa five times.
Last week, China postponed talks with Japan on undersea gas exploration in the East China Sea.
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