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2005-04-18 14:09:16 | 国際
ロイターの"Raw Video"という動画ニュース映像はは5~10分間続くものが多い。そのため、テレビのニュース番組の短い映像にくらべると、強烈な臨場感が感じられることが多い。現場の臨場感をぜひ感じ撮りたいというときには、ロイターの"Raw Video"を覗いてみることをお薦めする。

けれども、どうすれば他の人に「ロイターの"Raw Video"に適切な映像があるよ」と知らせることができるのだろうか。ストリーミング技術が使われている場合は、単純にコピー&ペーストというわけにはいかないらしい。

次に掲げた「REUTERS RAW VIDEO」をクリックするとサイトにアクセスすることはできる。だが、そこにはたくさんの"Raw Video"が置かれおり、そのうちのどれがお薦めの動画なのか、明確に示すことが難しい。

それに、次々と新しい映像に置き換わっていくので、2~3日前のものは見ることができなくなってしまうという問題もある。まあ、このロイターの動画サイトは報道機関のためのもので、一般の人々に閲覧させるのが目的ではないのだから、致し方ないのかもしれない。

であるから今回のところは、「REUTERS RAW VIDEO」をクリックしてサイトを開き、そこで「China Rejects Apology Demand」を探してクリックしてほしいというしかない。もっと便利な方法はないのだろうか。どなたか教えていただきたいものである。


REUTERS RAW VIDEO



China Rejects Apology Demand(Reuters Raw Video 2005/04/17)

Thousands marched in Hong Kong on Sunday (April 17) to denounce Japan for glossing over its wartime atrocities in school textbooks and for vying for a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council.

The march was largely peaceful, unlike some of the violent scenes in similar protests in mainland China in past weeks.

Holding banners, the demonstrators chanted "Never forget theNanjing massacre" as they wound through some of Hong Kong's busiest streets from Victoria Park to government headquarters in the Central business district.

While organisers said they had never expected any trouble, they took the precaution of starting from a park, instead of near a popular Japanese department store. But they did not avoid routes with Japanese restaurants or stores.

Anti-Japan sentiment has been running high since early this month when Japan approved a textbook that critics say glosses over the brutal Japanese occupation of China from 1931 to 1945, including the Nanjing massacre of 1937.

Beijing says as many as 300,000 Chinese men, women and children were slaughtered by Japanese troops in Nanjing, the former Chinese capital.

The1948 Tokyo war crimes tribunal determined Japanese troops killed 155,000 people, mainly women and children.

"Today, we want to express our anger," said protester SteveWong.

"China, Korea and other Asian countries suffered a lot during the Japanese occupation. We hope Japan can learn the lesson in history."

In Shenzhen, in Guangdong province, about 10,000 protested in southern Shenzhen, bordering Hong Kong, according to Hong Kong's ATV television. Riot police ran to form a barricade to prevent anti Japan protesters from moving too far.

And as many as 2,000 people marched through the streets of the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang on Sunday, Japan's Kyodo news agency said. Demonstrators hurled bottles and eggs at the Japanese consulate in the city, once called Mukden, the capital of Manchuria. Police could be seen running to try to form a barricade to preven them from going further.

Shanghai was quiet on Sunday. Paramilitary police stood guard over the Japanese consulate which still bore the marks of paint and eggs thrown by protesters on Saturday (April 16).

In Beijing, hundreds of paramilitary police guarded the ambassador's residence or waited to take up positions for the second straight day. Demonstrators last weekend threw rocks and bottles at the compound, but there have been no repeat protests in the capital.

As the crisis deepened, Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura met his Chinese counterpart Li Zhaoxing in Beijing on Sunday to try to heal relations between the two countries.

But Li said China had no reason to apologise to Japan, even after the week of anti Japan protests.

"The Chinese government has never done anything for which it has to apologise to the Japanese people," he said during the meeting.

Reporters did not see the two men shake hands.

"The main problem now is that the Japanese government has done a series of things that have hurt the feelings of the Chinese people on the Taiwan issue, some international issues, including human rights and especially in its treatment of history," Li said.

Machimura told Li that Tokyo was deeply concerned about the situation and demanded that China deal it swiftly and sincerely in accordance with international rules.

He also said he hoped the meeting could provide a chance to improve bilateral relations and he had arrived with that "strong hope."

Citing a Japanese official in Beijing, Kyodo said Machimura and Li had agreed to try to arrange a meeting between Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and Chinese President Hu Jintao on the sidelines of the upcoming Asia-Africa summit in Indonesia.

The anti Japan violence has raised concerns about a backlash in Japan, and police in Tokyo have tightened security at the Chinese consulate and Chinese facilities after several incidents of harassment.

The deep freeze in Sino-Japanese ties comes a time when rivalry and mistrust are festering despite close economic ties that generate $178 billion in annual trade between the two Asian giants.

Among the many matters tangling ties are competition for energy resources, mutual concern about military strategies, and rivalry over leadership in Asian regional economic integration.

Tensions grew last week after Japan announced that it had begun procedures to allocate rights for test-drilling in a disputed area of the East China Sea.

China has come under fire for tacitly encouraging the anti-Japanese unrest.

Beijing denies it deliberately allowed the protests to intensify and has pointed the finger at Tokyo's own failure to own up to its past. But authorities have pledged to protect Japanese businesses and nationals in China.

Relations between the two countries, often plagued by rows over the past, soured after Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi took office in 2001 and made annual visits to the Yasukuni Shrine, where convicted war criminals are enshrined along with Japan's nearly 2.5 million war dead.

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