Activists up ante in China, Japan isle dispute
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Anti-Japan protesters march in Chengdu, in southwestern China's Sichuan province, Sunday Aug. 19, 2012. Japanese activists swam ashore and raised flags Sunday on an island claimed by both Japan and China, fanning an escalating territorial dispute between the two Asian powers. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT
Anti-Japan protesters march in Chengdu, in southwestern China's Sichuan province, Sunday Aug. 19, 2012. Japanese activists swam ashore and raised flags Sunday on an island claimed by both Japan and China, fanning an escalating territorial dispute between the two Asian powers. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT
Chinese look at overturned Japanese cars after an anti-Japan protest in Shenzhen, China's Guangdong Province, Sunday, Aug. 19, 2012. Japanese activists swam ashore and raised flags Sunday on an island claimed by both Japan and China, fanning an escalating territorial dispute between the two Asian powers. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
Japanese activists hold the national flags on Uotsuri island, one of the islands of Senkaku in Japanese and Diaoyu in Chinese, in East China Sea, Sunday, Aug. 19, 2012. Japan?s Coast Guard says a group of Japanese activists have landed on Uotsuri island, one of a group of islands at the center of an escalating territorial dispute with China. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE
Anti-Japan protesters march in Chengdu, in southwestern China's Sichuan province, Sunday Aug. 19, 2012. Japanese activists swam ashore and raised flags Sunday on an island claimed by both Japan and China, fanning an escalating territorial dispute between the two Asian powers. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT
Japan Coast Guard officers patrol on a rubber boat as Japanese activists hang their national flags on a small lighthouse and its perimeter on Uotsuri, the largest in a small archipelago known in Japan as the Senkaku Islands and in China as the Diaoyu Islands, Sunday, Aug. 19, 2012. They swam ashore and raised the flags early Sunday on the island at the center of an escalating territorial dispute with China. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE
TOKYO (AP) ? An unauthorized landing by Japanese activists on an island at the center of a dispute with China is sparking nationalist outrage and fueling calls on both sides for aggressive government action that some fear could lead to an escalation of tensions.
Japanese authorities on Monday questioned the 10 Japanese, including five local assembly members, who swam ashore on the disputed island the day before.
Criminal charges were not expected.
Japan's chief Cabinet spokesman Osamu Fujimura called the landing "regrettable" because it was done without government approval.
Beijing has protested and the landing has generated demonstrations in several Chinese cities. The island is part of a disputed chain called Senkaku in Japanese and Diaoyu in Chinese.
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