Japan Snubs China on Gas, History Feud Simmers

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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan began allocating rights for gas exploration in a disputed

area of the East China Sea on Wednesday, a move likely to rile China at a time

when ties are at rock-bottom levels in a dispute over Japan's wartime past.

A senior Chinese

official, calling the energy dispute one of the main problems plaguing

Sino-Japanese relations, had warned Tokyo a day earlier not to award the test

drilling rights and said doing so would " fundamentally change the

issue. "

Simmering tensions

between the two Asian giants over a range of topics, especially what China sees

as Japan's failure to own up to wartime atrocities, erupted in China at the

weekend, with thousands of people taking part in protests that turned violent.

Some concerns have risen

about a backlash in Japan, and in Tokyo on Wednesday members of a right-wing group shouted slogans at the

Chinese embassy, where security has been tightened, and dragged Chinese flags

behind two vans, a witness said.

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