Japan conducts mock drill to defend remote islands from China
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Updated: May 23, 2021 12:20 IST
Tokyo [Japan], May 23 (ANI): Japan's Self-Defense Forces conducted live-fire drill in scenario for defending remote islands on Saturday in a scenario to prevent Chinese troops from landing on these territories.
The annual firepower exercise at the East Fuji training area in Shizuoka Prefecture comes as Japan has been increasingly vigilant over China's maritime assertiveness in the East China Sea where Beijing claims the Japanese-administered Senkaku Islands, reported the japan times.
Japan is stepping up its capabilities to protect the Nansei Islands, a chain stretching southwest toward Taiwan and covering Okinawa and the Senkakus, uninhabited isles which China calls the Diaoyu.