双语新闻：日本发布与香港保钓船对峙视频

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Japan Releases Senkaku Showdown Video
            The latest bubbling of tensions between China and Japan over the disputed islands shows no signs of simmering down.         
              中日争议岛屿引发的最新争端丝毫没有降温的迹象。  
       On Monday, in what may have been the strangest protest action yet, Japan's ambassador to China had to sit and watch as an unidentified man ripped the flag off of his car in Beijing.         
             周一，日本驻华大使在北京眼睁睁地看着自己座驾前插着的日本国旗被一位不明身份的男子抢走。这可能是目前为止最奇怪的抗议举动。  
        Then, on Tuesday, the Japanese Coast Guard released footage from an Aug. 15 confrontation with a Chinese boat in which they tried and failed to prevent the first successful landing on the Senkaku islands by activists from Hong Kong since 1996.         
               日本海上保安厅周二随后发布了8月15日与一艘中国船只对峙时的视频片段。在对峙中，日本海上保安厅试图阻止香港活动人士登上尖阁列岛(Senkaku)，但没有成功。这是自1996年以来中国活动人士首次成功登上该争议岛屿。  
        Administered by Tokyo but claimed by Beijing and Taipei, the Senkakus are referred to as the Diaoyu Islands in mainland China and Tiaoyutai in Taiwan.         
              尖阁列岛目前由日本控制，但中国大陆和台湾也都声称对其拥有主权。尖阁列岛在中国大陆被称为“钓鱼岛”，在台湾被称为“钓鱼台列屿”。  
        A seven-minute highlight real of the Japanese footage compiled by the Japan Times shows Japanese Coast Guard boats issuing warnings to, and eventually firing water cannons at, the Hong Kong boat as it approaches the islands. It then cuts to shots of people aboard the Hong Kong boat - the Bao Diao II, or the 'Defend the Diaoyu II' - pulling unidentified objects out of a bucket and hurling them at one of the Japanese boats.         
               在一段由《日本时报》(Japan Times)编辑过的七分钟日文实时视频中，随着香港船只靠近争议岛屿，日本海上保安厅的几艘船向其发出警告，并最终使用了高压水枪。之后画面转换为香港“启丰二号”保钓船上的人员从一个桶中拖出不明物体，然后扔向其中的一艘日本船只。  
        From there, the video goes on to show a Japanese boat colliding with the Bao Diao II 'forcing the Chinese vessel to change its course,' according to a translation of the Japanese voice over and concludes with an image, shot from a helicopter, of the Hong Kong boat wedged between two Japanese Coast Guard boats, apparently under Japanese control.         
              紧接着，视频画面显示一艘日本船只与“启丰二号”撞击，据翻译成英文字幕的日文旁白说，这迫使中国船只改变航向。最后是一幅直升机航拍画面，其中显示香港船只在两艘日本海上保安厅船只的夹逼下，显然在日方控制之下。  
        Missing from the video is any clear view of the activists actually walking on the Senkakus. One shot appears to show several people standing on shore of one of the islands, but the graininess of the footage makes it difficult to tell whether they are activists or members of the Japanese coast guard.   
            
            

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               视频中没有活动人士在钓鱼岛上走动的清晰画面。在一幅画面中，似乎有几个人站在其中一座岛屿的岸上，但画面不够清晰，很难判断这些人是活动人士还是日本海上保安厅的人员。  
        The speed with which Japan released the footage is noteworthy, particularly after Japanese authorities came under fire for failing to release footage of an inflammatory 2010 confrontation near the islands between the Coast Guard and a Chinese fishing boat. Footage of that clash was eventually leaked onto YouTube, prompting right-wing critics to blast the government for lack of transparency.         
             日方发布此次事件视频的速度值得注意，特别是在日本当局因没有发布2010年争议岛屿附近日本海上保安厅船只与一艘中国渔船激烈对峙的视频而受到攻击之后。那次事件的视频最终从YouTube上泄露出来，右翼批评人士曾藉此抨击政府缺乏透明度。  
      According to the Japan Times, the Coast Guard this time released 30 minutes of video, culled from roughly seven hours of total footage. The newspaper said footage that might reveal Japan's patrolling techniques and formations was edited out. It's not clear what other scenes may have ended up on the cutting room floor.         
            据《日本时报》说，日本海上保安厅这次发布了30分钟的视频，这些视频是从全部约七小时的视频中截取出来的。该报说，可能暴露日本巡逻技术和阵型的片段在编辑时被删除了。不清楚删除的片段中可能还有哪些画面。  
      The release of the footage appears to have been planned before the Monday afternoon theft of the flag on Ambassador Uichiro Niwa's car. That incident, which drew cheers from many Chinese Internet users, led to a 'strong protest' from the Japanese embassy and assurances from China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs that authorities were 'seriously investigating' the matter.         
            视频的发布似乎是在周一下午日本驻华大使丹羽宇一郎(Uichiro Niwa)座驾前的国旗被拔之前就计划好了的。很多中国网络用户对拔旗事件拍手称快。事件引发了日本驻中国大使馆的强烈抗议，中国外交部保证，有关部门正在认真调查此事。  
      A statement from the Japanese embassy said the ambassador was not hurt and no other damage was done to the vehicle.         
             日本驻中国大使馆的一份声明说，大使没有受伤，他的座驾也没有遭到其他损坏。  
      The flag-snatching episode appears to have embarrassed even the Global Times, one of China's most reliably nationalistic tabloids. In a commentary titled 'Assaulting vehicles is no help to diplomacy,' the newspaper speculated that the man responsible for the incident might have been suffering from a mental condition. Stealing the flag, it went on to say, was a 'childish action' that would only provide right-wing voices in Japan with more ammunition.         
             拔旗事件似乎令中国最具民族主义色彩的报纸《环球时报》(Global Times)都感到难堪。该报在一篇题为“袭击座驾无助于改善外交关系”的评论文章中猜测，制造这起事件的男子可能有精神问题。文章说，拔旗是幼稚的行为，只会给日本右翼提供更多的口实。