| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - 2012 has been proclaimed a Year of Friendship between Japan and China, celebrating a half century of normalized ties through expensively planned and highly touted events aimed especially at smoothing feathers still ruffled by the September 2010 Japan Coast Guard capture of a Chinese fishing boat during a stand off over the contested Diaoyutai/Senkaku islands.2 Mayor Kawamura and Governor Ishihar
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