A Chinese navy vessel has been spotted in Japan s territorial waters near islands of the southwestern prefecture of Kagoshima, the Defense Ministry says.
A Chinese navy vessel has been spotted in Japan's territorial waters near islands of the southwestern prefecture of Kagoshima, the Defense Ministry said Wednesday. A survey ship entered Japanese waters from west of Kuchinoerabu Island at around 11 p.m. Tuesday and sailed out of the territorial waters south of Yakushima…
It was the first time since July 2017 that the ministry had confirmed and disclosed a Chinese naval vessel's intrusion into Japanese waters and the fourth such incursion ever.
A Chinese naval ship sailed in Japan waters earlier this week off its southwestern prefecture of Kagoshima, the country Defence Ministry said on Friday.