From the article of 'Petrel'
No.600 / October 6, 1996

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The wave of the nationalism is high in East China Sea

The Senkaku islands (Diao Yu islands) problem and The Japan Communist Party
The one to shout 'Owning right' and to back up government



The complication happens concerning the owning right of the Senkaku islands between Taiwan of Japan, China, and Hong Kong. The Japan Communist Party announces the thesis assumed to be "The Senkaku islands are territories in Japan" by organization paper "Red flag" and is protecting the owning right of Japan of this problem.



The Japan Communist Party (JCP) is following to the government.



The chance of the complication is that a Japanese government left it for the right wing's in Japan having set up the lighthouse in the Senkaku islands.

Won Director-General of the Asian Affairs Bureau of Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs criticized a Japanese government as follows. "A Japanese government let the right wing alone. Consequently, because the attitude of inciting was taken, their acts have been promoted further." And, 31 persons (the newspaper and the publication field) criticize the weak-kneed of the government again, and put out the declaration that "If a Japanese government does not destroy the lighthouse, we calls so that China may dispatch and blast the warship", the voice of the patriotism principle becomes clamorous domestically. Journalism and a private group criticize this problem in Hong Kong and Taiwan, "Militarism invasion act" of Japan and the protest toward Japan activity shows the symptom of escalation further to attempt the forcing landing to the Senkaku islands.

The Liberal-Democratic Party included the territory problem as a commitment of the total election because government should carry out decisive attitude for territory problem while a criticism by China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong toward Japan is successive. The Senkaku islands are described in the commitment, "In a peculiar territory it to a Japanese country, the territory problem does not exist clearly historically with China on an international method". It is clear that the policy of such the Liberal-Democratic Party stimulates China more.

On the inside where the friction in daytime becomes strong concerning owning of the Senkaku islands, JCP prints the thesis entitled "View of the problem and the solution which comes round in the Senkaku islands" to organization paper "Red flag" (22 dates of September) and is emphasizing "A peculiar territory to Japan" it.

"The Senkaku islands (A Chinese name is Diao Yu Island) had been known from old to both parties of Japan and China. It was incorporated into Japan in January, 1895 and arrived today. Historical material by which the Senkaku islands prove China was owned by the country starting somewhere before incorporation by Japan is not found.

The incorporation in 1895 into Japan was due to the Cabinet Council decision. Japanese tatsushirou Koga was putting out the loan prayer of this island that was the uninhabited island in 1885, 10 years ago from this ahead. After owning in 1895, the objection used to not be a recitation of the foreign country against the Japan belonging of the Senkaku islands for seven many years until the beginning of 1970's. Japan keeps ruling the effect of this island now."

JCP is describing that China's beginning to insist on the owning right is after a promising deposit of oil is found in the vicinity of the Senkaku islands at the beginning of 70's and the Senkaku islands were not described in the map of China till then. Moreover, about insisting that China was deprived of the islands by Japan as a result of the Sino-Japanese War, the JCP is refuting that "The Senkak islands problems are cut off from the Pongho islands problems of Taiwan and have been handled by which material as a distinct problem" and the Senkaku islands were not included even in the Cairo declaration to which restoration of territory which Japan annexed was expressed and the Potsdam declaration, and at that time, China did not demand the restoration of the Senkaku islands either.

The opinion of JCP is basically the same as the grounds that Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Japan showed as territory in Japan to the protest of China in 1972. JCP is stressing that the owning right of the Senkaku islands in Japan is "Historically clearly" and there is not being said to putting such as China stinginess at all. However, the insistence of JCP does not exceed the frame of a bourgeois discussion that is that the owning right of the Senkaku islands is in either by as much as one step. They become with the bourgeoisie in Japan, refute to China, and are insisting on the owning right.

The Senkaku islands are located from Okinawa and the middle of Taiwan in the point from Taiwan a little and are uninhabited island groups of the 6.3km square in a total area consist of the Cyougyotou and the Kitakojima, etc. JCP says that after it is clarified that a promising oil resource is buried to the vicinity of this islands at time when China that has not had the concern in the island where this tiny person does not live either up to now began to insist on the owning right, and says that the intention of China that insists on the owning right is the one for the oil resource acquisition.

It is easy to point out the hegemonism of China that insists on the owning right of the Senkaku islands. Up to now, a bourgeois nation = China has repeated a military collision with nations such as the old Soviet Union and Vietnam in the surrounding about the border. Still, China fights over Vietnam, Indonesia, etc. and the owning right of the Xisha and the Nansha islands that bury the bottom of the sea oil to the region in the surrounding. Because China is making to station army at the Xisha islands where these were a uninhabited islands and installed the runway, China is making the rule of oneself an existing fact.

Not only China but also Japan is the same with the ambition to the territory.

Japan is competing against South Korea though comes round in Takeshima's owning right. The international oceanic method agreement decided an exclusive, economic waters of 200 nautical miles and belonging of these islands is a problem because each country secure the fishery resource. How does a Japanese government have strong devotion in the territory and it is clear to see the example of the south bird island. Japan turns on money of hundred million how many and is doing the reinforcement construction that prevents the shore reef slightly beetling in the surface of the sea lost by the invasion of the sea water to expand an exclusive, economic waters. It is not sufficient to the doubt even if a Japanese government that attaches too much importance to even to a rock one the lump as vague that has an extraordinary ambition in owning of the Senkaku islands. Confrontation of Japan and China of the Senkaku islands for owning is the confrontations of interests of a bourgeois nation that tries to occupy the resource to oneself.



Cheated "Peaceful solution"



Japan justifies becoming what of "Historical fact" the Senkaku islands owned to JCP and the owning taking out right is justified. On the other hand, China is taking such standpoints that because "Japan did not come to recite the objection to the sovereignty of China to the Chougyo islands until the Sino-Japanese War started at the 19th end of the century", Japan plundered China by the Shimonoseki agreement in 1895. A Japanese government, JCP, and the opinion of China are parallel lines in complete.

It is insisted that even we of them are more correct and the insistence of the opponent be wrong. However, these kind of things are trivial for the worker. The reason for the essence of the problem is which does not own it early. The meaning of the confrontation for owning of the Senkaku islands is a fight for territory and resource acquisition even if you see from the side of both Japan and China. However, JCP cannot see the essence of the problem and is all-out in the proof which country's it having owned. JCP thoroughly does not expose a reactionary intention of the rule class of Japan and China which are fighting concerning owning of the Senkaku islands and is asking to neither unity nor the struggle opposed the capital of the worker in each country, and is about to roll the worker in the dispute of the bourgeois.

The policy of JCP makes "the territory" absolute as sacredness and nonaggression and it clarifies that how much bourgeois they rot and degenerate.

Making "Territory" absolute denies that the territory was formed with the approval of the property of owning privately system and the nation and is historical and transitional, and abandones a fundamental revolution of the world capitalism and surrenders to the rule of the capital.

It is clear how reactionary making "Territory" absolute and persisting in it is, because the bourgeoisie is repeating the dispute concerning "Territory" in all parts of the world.

JCP is emphasizing that the solution of the territory problem should be based on "a peaceful solution". They say "Now, Request to the diplomacy of Japan is strengthening the effort to clarify the owning right of Japan for the Senkaku islands to base on a peaceful solution to the end by a persevering discussion".

JCP tries to promote the sales of them as a party of a peaceful principle by calling the government "a persevering discussion" with China. However, it is clear that JCP's insistence of "Peaceful solution" of the territory problem is the dead letter phrase separating from the reality. The war will not happen, if we can solve the confrontation of the interests between nations by "Discussion". Finally, nations do not solve the confrontation of their interests except achieving by power.

Even if JCP shouts "Peaceful solution" how much, The policy of a Japanese government becomes a certain ability exercise and can do nothing but arrive, if they try to carry out their "Owning right". Actually, JCP is demanding decisive measures of a Japanese government, saying "The violation act on China that the oceanic investigation ship of China often investigates in the sea area in the vicinity of the entry the Senkaku islands in territorial waters cannot be left. A Japanese government is requested to correspond to a Chinese government decisively". Actually, JCP is demanding decisive measures of a Japanese government. Such nationalisms of JCP help a domestic reactionary sect.



Supplementation with rule of the large capital



A government and a commercial newspaper arrange the mouth and shout that the Senkaku islands are a peculiar "Territory" to Japan. They say that It is the same as the defense of "People' profits" to defend "Territory". However, "People' profits" is capital class actually profits. The bourgeoisie pretends the own and class profits whether it is the entire people' profits and has fueled a patriotism principle and an antiforeign principle.

However, "Territory" is without relation in the worker. Land and the ocean are the properties of the cooperation of the human race and it is necessary to use all land and oceanic resources on the earth to improve the life of the human race. Be to rule the capital that it is disturbed by the assumption of the property of owning privately system basic. The bourgeoisie advanced here and there in the world and built up the rule of the capital. And, they assume land which is the property of the human race cooperation to be "Territory" and have insisted on exclusive right of the home country.

However, now JCP is shouting to defend "Territory in Japan" with the bourgeoisie. Shamelessly, They are in the state by starting to the defense of "Territory" right for the bourgeoisie by taking even a bourgeois international method out this problem. (they say, "The owning right of Japan in the Senkak islands is right in an international method") This is having of no thing other than the betrayal to worker's international principle. Marx described, "The worker does not have the mother country". The one to be lost does not have anything in the worker besides a capital exploitation iron chain. Worker's ideal is abolition of the exploitation of the capital, and is that the worker in all over the world must cooperate truly and achieve the association by losing all the class discrimination. For that, the worker in the world should accomplish the fight to unite internationally and to eliminate imperialism and reactionary power.

However, JCP sanctifies "Territory" and insists like the problem of the worker in Japan the defense of it. This is to abandon the revolution of the rule of the capital that is divided to the self-regard nation and conflicts and to follow to the bourgeoisie.

JCP spreads a nationalism, a patriotism principle, and an antiforeign principle to say that "right of self-protection" is the peculiar right to nation and let's defend "Territory" of Japan. Now, a Japanese monopolistic capital that changed to the imperialism of the eminent world strengthens a national principle and the patriotism principle like the armament reinforcement and the education of "Rising-sun flag and Kimigayo (national anthem of Japan)" etc. The nationalism of JCP supports such the bourgeoisie's making to the reactionary from the side. Now, the stalinist communist party (it is JCP!) that has rotted to the supplementation with reactionary rule of the monopolistic capital is only an object of the overthrow for the worker.

( Kiichiro Taguchi )