Japan lodged a protestation with China aft 1 of its naval survey vessels entered Japanese waters connected Saturday, the 2nd incursion into its territory by the Chinese subject successful little than a week.
An uptick successful Chinese subject enactment adjacent Japan and astir Taiwan successful caller years has stoked concerns successful Tokyo. Japan has responded with a defence buildup that it says aims to deter Beijing from utilizing subject unit to propulsion its territorial claims successful the region.
The vessel was detected disconnected the seashore of Kagoshima Prefecture, successful Japan's southwest, astatine astir 6 a.m. section clip (2100 GMT Friday), and departed wrong 2 hours, the country's defence ministry said.
Tokyo registered its "strong interest and protestation implicit this incident" with a Chinese embassy official, the overseas ministry said successful a connection that besides referenced the archetypal airspace intrusion by a Chinese subject level connected Monday.
Tokyo told Chinese diplomats earlier this week that Monday's usurpation of it airspace was "utterly unacceptable."
A telephone telephone to the Chinese embassy successful Tokyo went unanswered erstwhile Reuters called extracurricular regular concern hours.
Saturday's incidental was the tenth clip successful the past twelvemonth that a Chinese naval survey vessel has sailed done Japan's territorial waters, and the 13th clip if submarines and different intelligence-gathering vessels are included, according to nationalist broadcaster NHK.
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