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Four Chinese ships enter Japan’s territorial waters near disputed islands

Tokyo, Four Chinese ships have entered Japan’s territorial waters near the disputed Senkaku Islands, the Kyodo news agency reported on Wednesday, citing Japan’s security service.

According to the Japanese news outlet, this is the first such violation registered in 2021.

In 2020, Japan registered 24 cases of Chinese ships’ violation of its sea border and 333 cases of Chinese ships’ entrance into Japan’s contiguous zone. In mid-October, China’s vessels entered Japan’s territorial waters and left them only 57 hours later, marking a new record of the length of stay in the area. The previous record was hit in July, when Chinese ships drifted in Japan’s territorial sea for 39 hours.

The islands in question, known in China as the Diaoyudao islands, have long been an object of territorial disputes between China and Japan. Tokyo maintains it has had sovereignty over them since 1895 and Beijing claims that the islands are marked as a Chinese territory on Japanese maps circa 1783 and 1785. Following World War II, the islands were controlled by the United States and handed over to Japan in 1972. China believes Japan illegally seized them.

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