Japan's right wing makes itself felt

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Recently, Taiwanese fishermen have demanded the government deal with the problem of sovereignty over the Diaoyutais (???) in the dispute with Japan over fishing rights. At the same time, the city council of Ishigaki, in Okinawa, last Friday voted 10-9 to allow the mayor and city councilors to land on the islands to conduct inspection tours. This is likely to increase tension between Taiwan and Japan.
Such tensions have been exacerbated by the Japanese police, who prevented independent Aboriginal Legislator May Chin (????) from staging a protest outside the Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo. Right-wing groups were also there objecting to her protest. The groups have staged a number of events in the name of "protecting the Yasukuni shrine."

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