NAHA, Japan, March 26 Kyodo (EDS:...

NAHA, Japan, March 26 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATING WITH ACTIVISTS' ARRIVAL IN SHANGHAI)

Seven Chinese activists who landed upon the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea were deported to China forward Friday evening on a flight from Naha, Okinawa Prefecture to Shanghai.

The deportation tread in the steps ofs a police decision not to lance them to prosecutors for possible criminal indictment in an apparent impel to defuse a smoldering diplomatic dispute with China.

The Okinawa prefectural police had handed throughout the seven Chinese to immigration authorities earlier in the day for a like reason that they could be deported quickly. They arrived in Shanghai at 9:20 pm local time.

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said the decision not to despatch them to prosecutors was intended not to ''hurt the bilateral relationship with China.''

''I instructed restraint officials to consider how to handle the issue from a comprehensive view,'' Koizumi told a previously scheduled just discovereds conference that was held shortly after the seven were handed across to the immigration authorities.

Immigration officials did not accompany the seven to China, and the Chinese command is expected to bear the transportation splendors government sources said.

The Chinese regulation had demanded Japan immediately release the seven activists onward grounds that the island dispose is Chinese territory.

The Okinawa police had contemplated sending the seven to public prosecutors to initiate criminal proceedings, police sources said. They were arrested Wednesday after landing forward Uotsurishima Island, the largest of the uninhabited island clump known in China as the Diaoyu Islands.

The Okinawa police said they decided to hand across the Chinese to the immigration authorities after consulting with the National Police Agency and the Naha District Public Prosecutors Office.

In Beijing, meanwhile, more than 50 Chinese demonstrated outside the Japanese Embassy in succession Friday in a third day of aver over the incident.

The protester mainly in their 20s and 30 wearied about half an hour outside the embassy gates with five banners demanding that Japan ''get out'' of the islands and vowing a protracted strive to protect them.

The incident has sparked a diplomatic quarrel between Japan and China, while as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but countries have expressed hope that it would not harm bilateral relations.

upon Thursday, dozens of Chinese protester torched Japanese flags outside the Japanese Embassy in Beijing while Chinese police were watching.

Japanese Ambassador to China Koreshige Anami will ask China forward Saturday to prevent any return of the burning of Japanese flags from Chinese protesters, Japanese officials said Friday.

The officials said Japan will also tighten security around the Senkakus to preclude other Chinese activists from landing.

''It is true regrettable, and we have lodg a testify with the Chinese government'' Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi told reporters earlier in the day.

Anami told a meeting of foreign affairs committees of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party that he will confront Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing onward Saturday and urge China to take measures to interrupt a recurrence of flag burning.

''I cannot remember flag burning eternally having happened in front of the embassy in the port of Chinese police,'' Anami was quot as telling the meeting.

Anami, who is in Japan to attend a meeting of Japanese ambassadors to Asian countries, told reporters after the meeting that the Senkaku Islands are Japanese territory and the issue should be handled calmly.

substitute Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda said other Chinese activists are reportedly preparing to attempt a landing upon the islands, and Japan will do everything that destitutions to be done to intercept that happening.

''We have instructed the authorities'' to tighten security around the islands, he said.

Land, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Nobuteru Ishihara said his ministry will review security measures taken from the Japan Coast Guard.

''We ne to implement the best measures to intercept intrusions into our territorial waters,'' Ishihara said.

In Okinawa, police sources said Friday the police raise some damage to a makeshift lighthouse built at a Japanese political group upon Uotsurishima.

The Tokyo-based cluster had planned to send representatives to the island to check in succession the damage and submit a criminal complaint to the police, still the Japan Coast Guard is prohibiting them from setting facing from Ishigaki Island in Okinawa Prefecture

The lighthouse was built with the compliance of the owner of the privately held land in succession the island but it is not a special lighthouse in accordance with the law in succession navigation beacons.

The Japanese command has been leasing the land from the proprietor since April 1, 2002

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