Internet hoax sees China invade Japan

["Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

An AFP newswire article, via Yahoo! News, reports that:

[snip]

A fictitious article saying Chinese troops invaded the Japanese island of Okinawa was seen on a bogus Japanese-language 
Yahoo News website at the height of tensions between the two Asian neighbours.

The article, which was wrongly credited to Japan's Kyodo news agency, reported that the US Department of Defense 
announced the "invasion" early Tuesday.

Both Kyodo News and Yahoo Japan quickly denied they had anything to do with the story and said they were considering 
legal action although the identity of the perpetrators was unknown.

"US forces as well as Japanese self-defense forces are exchanging fire in the skies over Okinawa at the moment," the 
bogus news item read.

[snip]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051019/tc_afp/japanchinamediacrimeyahoo

- ferg


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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/

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