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Beijing seizes japan textbooks for lies
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-06-29 11:22

Textbooks headed for a Japanese school in China were seized by customs
officials who objected to the way maps in the books depicted the
Chinese mainland and Taiwan, an official said Tuesday.


A member of Taiwan's Labor Party demonstrates outside the Interchange
Association, in Taipei, protesting an amendment in Japanese history
textbooks. [AP]

The maps showed the mainland and the island in different colors, said
Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao, indicating that Beijing was
concerned this might make Taiwan seem like a separate country.

"The Japanese textbooks showed China and Taiwan in different colors,"
Liu said at a regular news briefing. "The 'one-China principle' is
paramount, so it is legitimate for China's customs to handle this
according to the law."

The 180 books had been bound for a Japanese school in the northeastern
city of Dalian.

Chinese officials also objected to the books because they identified a
set of islands in the East China Sea as part of Japanese territory.

Beijing and Tokyo have a long-running feud over the islands - called
Diaoyu by China and Senkaku by Japan - which are believed to lie near
oil and gas resources.

Japan's Kyodo News agency reported that the customs office in Dalian
demanded the school pay a $120 fine and present an explanation to
Chinese authorities.

It wasn't known if the fine was paid.

Japan-China relations have been strained by a separate dispute over
Japanese textbooks that critics say minimize Tokyo's wartime
aggression.

In April, protests erupted across China over that dispute and Tokyo's
campaign for a permanent U.N. Security Council seat.

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