A day after top officials’ visits to a controversial Tokyo war shrine rankled Japan’s neighbors, Beijing and Tokyo faced off afresh over a group of disputed islands, raising concerns that tensions between the two East Asian powers may be returning after a period of relative calm.
The Japanese Coast Guard complained Tuesday that China had sent eight maritime-patrol ships to the waters surrounding small East China Sea islands controlled by Tokyo but claimed by Beijing. China, meanwhile, protested the presence in the same waters of a flotilla of boats piloted by Japanese activists.
The Chinese flotilla was the largest Beijing had sent to the area since September, when the current dispute flared up following Japan’s decision to nationalize the islands.
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Yuka Hayashi, Wall Street Journal via CHINA US Focus http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ChinaUsFocus/~3/Kfr7rHTTJys/
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