Japan protests China’s second territorial incursion in less than a week

Japan has lodged a protest with China after one of its naval research vessels entered Japanese waters on Saturday, the second incursion into its territory by the Chinese military in less than a week.

An increase in Chinese military activity near Japan and around Taiwan in recent years has fueled concerns in Tokyo. Japan has responded with a defense buildup that it says is aimed at preventing Beijing from using military force to advance its territorial claims in the region.

The vessel was spotted off the coast of Kagoshima Prefecture in southwestern Japan around 6 a.m. local time and departed within two hours, the country’s defense ministry said.

Tokyo expressed its “strong concern and protest over this incident” to a Chinese embassy official, the foreign ministry said in a statement that also referred to the first airspace intrusion by a Chinese military aircraft on Monday.

Tokyo told Chinese diplomats earlier this week that Monday’s violation of its airspace was “totally unacceptable.”

A call to the Chinese embassy in Tokyo went unanswered when Reuters called outside normal business hours.

Source: Terra

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