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Tokyo governor lands on islands at center of dispute with PRC, 21 May 2005, Taiwain News Online (PDF 508 kb)
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Waving a Japanese rising sun flag, Tokyo's outspoken nationalist governor landed on a pair of Pacific islets at the center of a dispute with China yesterday, in a trip likely to aggravate already tense relations between the two nations. "We should think about ways to more actively use this territory for fishing as an economic activity," Ishihara told national broadcaster NHK, after snorkeling around the islet. He also said officials were considering plans to build an ocean thermal energy conversion facility - which would convert the heat naturally stored in seawater into energy - on top of the islet's reef.
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