This is CBS Eye on the World. I'm John Bats with Gordon Chang at Gordon G. Chang, my colleague

and co-host, and we're very pleased to welcome Lance Gatling, the principal of Nexil Research

in Tokyo, to help us with a story that spilled out over these last days. Two days ago,

the U.P.I. is reporting. Japan's Prime Minister, Kishida, urges China to stop regrettable

quote, water complaint on calls. The background of this as I understand it is Fukushima, the

catastrophe of the tsunami many years ago, is releasing some of the water that it is stored

ever since using it to cool the plants that are still dangerous, releasing some of it

into the ocean with no discernible risk to anyone. It is the ocean, and radioactivity can

be natural around the world. But in any event, ever since then, there have been reports

of harassment against all kinds of Japanese enterprises, restaurants, gasoline stations,

by Chinese nationals. The regrettable water complaint is what the Prime Minister is

speaking to. And since this initial report, the matter has moved so that we have stories

about harassment. We have stories about banning Japanese seafood in China. We have stories

about questions of challenging whether this is purposeful, whether this is meant to hire

the Chinese people. In other words, the gossip is spilling out of control. So I welcome Lance

to help us understand how Tokyo is reading this dispute. Lance, a very good evening to

you. At first, banning Japanese seafood doesn't seem to be a major play against between

these two states, but they are at odds. Remain at odds because of the matter of Taiwan.

Remain vulnerable to provocations. The only thing I know to compare it to is the burning

of Japanese automobile dealerships many years ago in a dispute at the end of Huzion Tao's

time as chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and the rising of Xi Jinping. What is the

report in Tokyo about this dispute? Has it been settled or is it accelerating? Good day

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