Japan lodged a strong protest with China on Friday, with top Foreign Ministry bureaucrat summoning Beijing's envoy to Japan to the ministry, hours after Chinese fishing boats and a coast guard vessel entered Japanese territorial waters around the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, the Foreign Ministry said.
Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Shinsuke Sugiyama summoned Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua to the Foreign Ministry, telling the envoy the coast guard vessel's intrusion into territorial waters around the Senkakus and its activities in the waters are a violation of Japan's sovereignty and totally unacceptable, the ministry said.
The ministry said the coast guard vessel entered Japanese waters in succession to Chinese fishing vessels' earlier intrusion into the waters around 1:30 p.m. Friday. The coast guard vessel was then confirmed to be sailing around the fishing vessels, the ministry said.
[kyodonews.jp]
5/8/16
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Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Shinsuke Sugiyama summoned Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua to the Foreign Ministry, telling the envoy the coast guard vessel's intrusion into territorial waters around the Senkakus and its activities in the waters are a violation of Japan's sovereignty and totally unacceptable, the ministry said.
The ministry said the coast guard vessel entered Japanese waters in succession to Chinese fishing vessels' earlier intrusion into the waters around 1:30 p.m. Friday. The coast guard vessel was then confirmed to be sailing around the fishing vessels, the ministry said.
[kyodonews.jp]
5/8/16
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Tokyo lodged a protest with China on Saturday after spotting an unprecedented 230 Chinese vessels swarming waters near the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, the Foreign Ministry said...
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The number of fishing vessels, which appeared to be escorted by the coast guard ships, was much larger than has previously been spotted.
“This is a unilateral act that raises tensions … and it is unacceptable to us,” the Foreign Ministry’s Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau director-general, Kenji Kanasugi, told the Chinese Embassy in Japan, the ministry said.
Some of the coast guard vessels appeared to be equipped with guns, according to the Japan Coast Guard......Kyodo
6/8/16