在中國軍事設施周邊“大量”拍攝,日本人被拘留

A few weeks ago the Yomiuri News on-line reported the following:

拘束邦人、中国軍事施設周辺を「大量」撮影か

2015年10月04日 09時50分

　中国で「スパイ活動」の疑いで拘束されている愛知県の５０歳代の男性が今年５月、浙江省温州市平陽県沖の南キ列島にある軍事施設周辺で大量の写真を撮影していたことが分かった。

　施設は約３００キロ離れた沖縄県・尖閣諸島の周辺海域を所管しているとされ、中国当局が日本人の行動に極度に神経をとがらせている実態が浮かび上がった。

　地元当局者によると、男性は中国人とみられる通訳を連れ、記念撮影のレベルを超えた「大量」の写真を撮影していたことから、拘束されたという。

　同列島はリゾート地で海外客も上陸が可能だが、島の一角には日本の自衛隊、海上保安庁の活動を監視するレーダー施設などがあるとみられ、施設周辺は立ち入りが厳しく制限されている。中国軍幹部は国内メディアに対し、「戦略的意義のある数か所の島嶼(とうしょ)の一つ」として、同列島に軍事基地があることを認めている。

My Translation:

An incident was made clear about some "spying activity" in China which concerned the arrest of a man in his 50s from Aichi prefecture who was taking a great deal of pictures in May of this year in Zhejiang province Wenzhou city Pingyang county’s south offing chain of islands that had military facilities.

 About these facilities, they had jurisdiction over the sea area around the Senkaku-islands, which was about 300 kilometers away from the Okinawa prefecture. A reality had surfaced that the Chinese authority was excessively sharpening its nerve over Japanese behavior.

According to a local person in authority, this man was arrested because he had brought along what look like to be a Chinese interpreter to take “a large amount of” pictures which was beyond the level for commemorative purpose.

 While these same chain islands was a holiday resort and visiting was possible by overseas visitors, at corner of the island there was radar facilities to watch over the activities of the Self-Defense Forces and the Maritime Safety Agency of Japan. Intrusion into the area around the facilities was severely restricted. An executive of the Chinese military admitted to the domestic media that there were military bases on the same island chains, and as such it was “one of the several islands that have strategic significance".

            The incident shows that Zhejiang province Wenzhou city now is an important military area because the military installation set up there would be used to monitor the situations in the Senkaku Islands, Taiwan and the South China Sea.