BEIJING, March 26 Kyodo Supporter...

BEIJING, March 26 Kyodo

Supporters of the seven Chinese activists who arrived back in China brace days after being arrested by way of Japanese police on one of the disputed Senkaku islands are happy about their reply but want Japan to apologize for the arrests, a spokesman said Friday evening.

''We be stirred very happy,'' said Zhou Wenbo, a spokesman for a arrange of about 50 populace allied with the activists who have attested for three days outside the Japanese Embassy in Beijing.

however despite the activists' release, he said his assemblage will ''remain vigilant'' because Japan has to this time to meet its other demands, particularly recognition of Chinese sovereignty athwart the Senkaku Islands, which are called Diaoyu in China.

The seven activists were deported to China forward Friday evening on a flight from Naha, Okinawa Prefecture to Shanghai following a Japanese police decision not to forward them to prosecutors for possible criminal indictment in an apparent determine to defuse a smoldering diplomatic dispute with China.

Earlier Friday, Zhou's collection held a two-hour demonstration outside the Japanese Embassy to demand the release of the activists.

They displayed banners calling in succession Japan to ''get out'' of the islands, vowed a protracted try to protect them and roared that the Japanese are ''terrorists.''

the same banner accused Japan of violating international law in its arrest and investigation of the seven Chinese activists who landed upon one of the disputed islands in fishing boats Wednesday morning, marking the first arrival there by the agency of mainland Chinese activists.

During the demonstration, the protester also displayed 20 black-and-white photos taken during the 1931-1945 Japanese military campaign in China.

To avoid a repeat of World War II, the Chinese nation should make their voices heard now, dispose leader Yin Haoyuan said.

''In the past hundred World War II, 2 million population were killed by the Japanese,'' Yin said, his voice cracking occasionally as he screamed to a crowd of journalists. ''Today, to make Chinese the community proud...we don't want to forget.''

About 30 police officers monitored the assert organized by a collection calling itself the Chinese Committee for Diaoyu Island Protection.

Police also shut uped off streets around the embassy to stop passers-by from entering. As traffic backed up around the barricades, dozens of onlooker stared inside.

affirms at the embassy began Wednesday morning with 13 commonalty and grew to more than 50 upon Thursday, when they burned brace piles of Japanese flags.

The protestors decided not to scorch flags Friday, Yin said. After the Japanese Embassy complained to Chinese officials Thursday about the flag-burning, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman distanced the command from the protestors' act, which he called ''extremist.''

When Vice Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo notify to appeared the embassy's charge d'affaires, Chikahito Harada, to the ministry upon Thursday afternoon to discuss the get back of the activists, Harada called the flag burning an ''insult.''

Because Japan curbs the Senkaku Islands, it cannot accept the Chinese activists' ''illegal'' act or China's official opposition, Harada added.

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