TOKYO, March 31 Kyodo Japan and C...

TOKYO, March 31 Kyodo

Japan and China canceled bilateral talks that were to begin Tuesday forward a U.N. maritime treaty after Beijing reacted angrily to Japan's arrest of seven Chinese upon a disputed island in the East China Sea last week, Japanese direction officials said Wednesday.

Japan had planned to ask China to stop its maritime research using boats in Japan's exclusive economic surface bounded by parallel circles (EEZ) without advance notice and comply with the UN Convention onward the Law of the Sea during the canceled talks involving senior working-level officials, the officials said.

The meeting was scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday in China, and Japanese officials from the Foreign Ministry and the Japan Coast Guard were to attend.

The talks were canceled amid growing regard that China's anger at Japan's detention of the seven activists could affect bilateral diplomatic schedules, including those not directly linked to the territorial dispute.

The activists landed last Wednesday forward Uotsurishima Island, one of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea controll on Japan whose ownership is disputed from the two countries. The islands -- known as the Senkaku Islands in Japan and the Diaoyu Islands in China -- are also claimed according to Taiwan.

Japan seized manage of the islands after winning a war with China in 1895 Following World War II, the United States administered the islands until 1972 when it handed them to Japan. China vies its claim to the islands goe back centurys of years.

The activists said they landed in succession the island intending to highlight China's claim. Japan accused them of trespassing and has deported them to China.

Japan has also been complaining to China about the increase in its maritime research in the Japanese EEZ saying that Japanese authorities have spott Chinese boats conducting reviews eight times last year and that the figure this year has already reached 11 as of March.

In a meeting earlier this month with Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo, Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi urg China to stop in the same state [i]or[/i] condition maritime research.

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