At the end of last week Japan sent two of its most modern warships to the Sea of Japan with orders to shoot down any missiles fired by North Korea towards the Japanese islands.
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Also, in the August 2009 elections, Denny Tamaki, a former radio deejay with a fondness for rock-and-roll, won a seat in the Lower House, representing a district in Naha, the capital of Okinawa prefecture, located south of the main Japanese islands.
Japan is within range of these rockets and has been taking precautions, including setting up batteries of US-made Patriot anti-missile systems around the capital and sending two warships to the Sea of Japan, with orders to shoot down any missiles fired towards the Japanese islands.
What did not happen as a result of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was the massive Allied (largely American) invasion of the Japanese home islands that was being actively planned.
The dispute over ownership of the islands has been rumbling for years, but it reignited in 2012 when the Japanese government purchased three of the islands from their private Japanese owner.
Instead of tackling the Japanese in direct, brutal assaults, MacArthur would pick under-defended Japanese-held islands, take them, and use them to choke off supplies and reinforcements to the Japanese island next door.
The ownership dispute has been rumbling for years, but it reignited in 2012 when the Japanese government purchased three of the islands from their private Japanese owner.
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The dispute over their ownership has been rumbling for years, but it reignited in 2012 when the Japanese government purchased three of the islands from their private Japanese owner.
That family, the Kuriharas, says it has documents showing the islands' Japanese ownership dating back to 1890.
Tokyo officials have said Japan is adamant the islands are Japanese territory.
Inside the national firms there were bands of true believers like Japanese soldier on isolated islands who just could not believe that it was over.
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The conventional wisdom is that the Japanese have been stymied by something called the Galapagos Syndrome: like the strange animals and plants that Darwin encountered in the Galapagos Islands, Japanese cellphones have evolved separately.
He thinks that the LDP can win over the public by emphasising the threat of Chinese and Russian claims to islands the Japanese consider their own, as well as the nuclear danger posed by North Korea.
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Nigel Roberts, managing director of the Channel Islands' registry said a Japanese man registered more than 1, 000 domains that ended ".gg", the islands' suffix.
On Monday, the Japan Coast Guard said three Chinese maritime surveillance vessels entered Japanese territorial waters near the islands.
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Chinese officials have issued threatening pronouncements to Japan that Tokyo must back down from the recent government purchase of three of the islands from private Japanese owners.
They have been at the heart of considerable diplomatic tension between China and Japan, most recently in January when Japan said a Chinese frigate put a radar lock on a Japanese navy ship near the islands - something China disputes.
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The results were the first production gains for the three biggest Japanese auto makers since a territorial row over a group of islands in the East China Sea led to boycotts of Japanese goods in September.
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Another irritant to regional ties arose Tuesday morning when eight Chinese patrol ships sailed within the territorial waters around the East China Sea islands, said a Japanese Coast Guard official.
Japan says the islands have always been Japanese.
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Toyota has been hit by a resurgence of anti-Japanese sentiment in China because of a territorial dispute over tiny islands, and some Chinese are worried about being seen driving a Japanese car.
Although Chinese consumers love Japanese technology and styling, the ongoing dispute over the Diaoyu islands in the East China Sea has created a negative environment for all Japanese goods in China, including autos.
Japanese soldiers were found living on Pacific Islands a full decade after World War 2 ended.
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Kumiodori is a Japanese performing art found on the Okinawa islands.
But as the vessel approached the islands mid-morning the Japanese coastguard issued verbal warnings for it to stop, then used water cannon to force it to turn back.
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The Chinese threaten the Japanese by sending submarines surreptitiously into Japan's waters, claiming as their own islands generally recognized as Japan's, aiming missiles at the Japanese homeland and protecting North Korea from sanctions for its provocative behavior.
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Moreover, the dispute over the Takeshima islands has undermined efforts to expand Japanese-South Korean security cooperation.
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