Japan protests to China over the entry of three ships into the waters around the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands

Sep. 28 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Government of Japan has transferred an official complaint to China on Wednesday after the entry of three Chinese Coast Guard ships into the waters around the Senkaku / Diaoyu Islands, an archipelago that both countries dispute.

Japanese Deputy Cabinet Secretary Yoshihiko Isozaki has called China’s actions “extremely regrettable” and “totally unacceptable”, while noting that Tokyo will take “cold and decisive” measures to deal with the situation.

The Japan Coast Guard has detailed that the entry of the ships into the waters around the islands took place around 3:15 a.m. (local time) and has stressed that Japanese patrol boats ordered them to withdraw immediately, according to the agency. Japanese news Kiodo.

Japan claims that the five islands have been part of its territory since 1895 and did not belong to anyone before, but China maintains that on Japanese maps of 1783 and 1785 the archipelago is identified as Chinese territory and that it had belonged to the Chinese Empire. However, Tokyo attributes the Chinese claims to the discovery in the 1970s of significant hydrocarbon reserves in the area.