81.   A second Japanese group landed on another island in August, erecting a couple of memorials and a Japanese flag.

82.   Akihito and Michiko then went over to greet hundreds of children, mostly the offspring of Japanese businessmen based in Hawaii who waved US and Japanese flags.

83.   Angry South Koreans burned a Japanese flag and staged noisy demonstrations outside Japanese diplomatic offices on Wednesday, accusing Tokyo of trying to whitewash its militarist past.

84.   Another Japanese nationalist group known as the Senkaku Islands Defence Association landed on the nearby island of Uotsuri in August, erecting two memorials and a Japanese flag.

85.   Angry South Koreans burned a Japanese flag and staged demonstrations outside Japanese diplomatic offices on Wednesday, accusing Tokyo of trying to whitewash its militarist past.

86.   At the Japanese Embassy it was greeted by Ambassador Sito Kunihiko and hundreds of Japanese, including children in traditional dress waving US and Japanese flags.

87.   But outside, they set fire to a large military flag and several small Japanese national flags.

88.   Chou burned a Japanese flag and read a protest letter addressed to an official at the office.

89.   The Taiwan protest followed the hoisting of a Japanese flag by four Japanese on the islands known as the Diaoyus to the Chinese and the Senkakus to the Japanese.

90.   The territorial dispute flared up again in July when Japanese ultra-nationalists built a lighthouse and erected a Japanese flag on the islands.