Tensions between China and Japan over wartime history took on a new dimension after Chinese authorities impounded a ship owned by Japan’s Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd. over a legal dispute dating back to the 1930s.
The Shanghai Maritime Court ordered the seizure on Saturday of the Baosteel Emotion—an iron-ore carrier—at a port in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang, according to statements on the websites of the court and Mitsui.
Japan’s Foreign Ministry said on Monday that this was the first time that Chinese authorities had seized a Japanese company’s assets because of a civil suit pertaining to claims for wartime reparations from Japan.
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Jeremy Page and Toko Sekiguchi, Wall Street Journal via CHINA US Focus http://ift.tt/1gRuGJA
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