China and Japan have reached an agreement to establish a hotline for their disputes over Taiwan and the South China Sea.
Japan's Defence Minister Nobuo Kishi held a two-hour video conference with his Chinese counterpart Wei Fenghe and expressed his grave concerns over Chinese coast guard ships activities in waters surrounding the Japanese administered Senkaku Islands.
The Diaoyu islands, also known as Senkaku islands have long been an object of a territorial dispute between Beijing and Tokyo.