Senkaku Islands: The Japanese

Goat Islands Dept: TOKYO -- The Japanese call them the Senkaku Islands, the Chinese refer to them as Diaoyu. Let me suggest a more appropriate name: Goat Islands, according to Winnipeg Free Press. That isn't as hyperbolic as it might sound. It is easy to envision a couple of Japanese businessmen being dragged from their corporate offices in Shanghai and beaten, or even killed, by an angry mob. Things could get out of hand very quickly, which explains why Panasonic and Canon are shutting Chinese plants. That goes, too, for naval ships near the disputed islands. Miscalculations, collisions and gunfire that lead to broader armed conflict aren't hard to imagine and anti-Japan protesters march through the street towards the Japanese Consulate General in Shanghai, China. Goats are all you will find on the cluster of uninhabited rocks over which the Japanese and Chinese seem ready to go to war. Diplomats in Tokyo and Beijing, meanwhile, are blaming one another over a mushrooming international crisis that has U.S. Defence Secretary Leon Panetta worried about a military "blow-up," the last thing the world needs right now. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.