This news must make most Japanese surprised, and get angry. After watching the news, I checked Twitter soon, and investigated how most people's reaction is. As I anticipated, most of tweets were anger stimulating our nationalism.
Japanese prosecutors decided to release a Chinese ship captain who were arrested for his ship operating illegally inside Japan's sea and to be worse colliding against Japanese patrol vessels.
Chinese government claimed for the captain's release soon, because they think the area where this incident happened is China's territory, so Japanese patrol vessels were more illegal.
However this China's view is minor. Nobody but China think the area near what we say Senkaku islands is their area. So, most Japanese thought the arrest was natural. Most Japanese must have thought Chinese government's reaction was too strange. Even if China's view was true to some extent, their lack of understanding the separation of the three branches of government was too bad. Judicial branches shouldn't and can't be effected by other branches of government and at least of all by foreign governments. So, we thought China's reaction was too childish.
However, I don't know why but, Japanese prosecutors thought about China and Japan's relationship (even though it was not their job.), and decided to release the arrested Chinese man! They made the example that judicial process can be stopped when the relationship with foreign countries looks valued more.
I had thought Chinese people don't understand what law is and why it's important, and it will take a long time for them to understand it. But, now, I understand so do Japanese! Now the two countries people stand on the same ground. It might be good for the two friends to understand each other. Their friendship might be stronger.
But, they are bad friends.
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