Japan sends back 14 Chinese activists by both plane and their own boat after they were detained for setting foot on an island claimed by both countries.<br/> <br />The activists were detained on Wednesday after using a boat to land on the rocky, uninhabited isles known as Senkaku in Japan and the Diaoyu in China.<br/> <br />Beijing had issues a series of demands for their immediate release.<br/> <br />The quarrel over the islands, which lie near potentially rich gas reserves, is one of several dogging Japan's ties with its Asian neighbour - some seven decades ater the end of WWII.
