TOKYO: Tokyo lodged a protest with Beijing on Friday (Jun 7) after four Chinese vessels that were believed to be armed approached Japan-controlled disputed islands in the East China Sea, the government's top spokesman said.
A China Coast Guard vessel sails near a Japan Coast Guard vessel off Uotsuri Island, one of a group of disputed islands in the East China Sea, on Apr 27, 2024. TOKYO: Tokyo lodged a protest with Beijing on Friday after four Chinese vessels that were believed to be armed approached Japan -controlled disputed islands in the East China Sea, the government's top spokesman said.
Relations suffered in 2012 when Tokyo"nationalised" some of the remote islands, and Japanese officials regularly protest at the presence of Chinese coast guard and other vessels in the surrounding waters. "The Chinese coast guard ships' intrusion into our territorial waters is a violation of international laws, so we have lodged a strong protest through a diplomatic route," he told reporters, adding the incident"can't be tolerated".
Chinese ships have been repeatedly spotted near the disputed islets since 2012, but"in recent cases, only one of four Chinese vessels in a group had what appeared to be a cannon", spokesman Takanori Fukuda told AFP.
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