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29-05-2025
- Business
Japan Says China Buoys No Longer in EEZ
News from Japan May 29, 2025 18:09 (JST) Tokyo, May 29 (Jiji Press)--Japan has confirmed that the second of the two Chinese buoys installed without permission in Japan's economic waters has been removed, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said Thursday. The Japan Coast Guard on Wednesday issued a navigation report saying the buoy, placed within Japan's exclusive economic zone south of Yonaguni Island in Okinawa Prefecture, southernmost Japan, was no longer there, Hayashi, Japan's top government spokesman, told a press conference, adding that the problem of the buoys has now been resolved. The other Chinese buoy in Japan's EEZ, which had been installed off the Senkaku Islands in Okinawa, was removed earlier this year. The Japanese-administered islands in the East China Sea are claimed by China. Referring to the removal of the buoys, Hayashi said that the Japanese government would refrain from speculating on China's intentions, pointing out that Beijing has not disclosed any information to foreign countries about them. END [Copyright The Jiji Press, Ltd.] Jiji Press
04-05-2025
- Politics
China Protests Japan over Helicopter Incident
News from Japan World May 4, 2025 19:15 (JST) Beijing, May 4 (Jiji Press)--China's Foreign Ministry on Sunday protested to Japan over an incident the previous day in which a Chinese helicopter flew in Japanese airspace around the Japanese-administered Senkaku Islands. Liu Jinsong, director-general of the ministry's Department of Asian Affairs, lodged the protest to Akira Yokochi, minister at the Japanese Embassy in Beijing. Liu claimed that a commercial airplane piloted by a Japanese right-winger violated Chinese airspace around the East China Sea islands. In response, Yokochi, the No. 2 official at the embassy, filed a strong protest to Liu over the helicopter's violation of Japanese airspace and urged the Chinese side not to repeat such an act, according to the embassy. According to sources including Japan's Defense Ministry, four Haijing ships from the Chinese coast guard entered Japanese waters around the Senkaku Islands from around 12:18 p.m. Saturday, and a helicopter then took off from one of the vessels and flew in Japanese airspace around the islands before returning to the ship. [Copyright The Jiji Press, Ltd.] Jiji Press
Yomiuri Shimbun
04-05-2025
- Politics
- Yomiuri Shimbun
China Chopper Violates Japanese Airspace near Senkakus
Courtesy of the Japan Coast Guard's 11th regional headquarters A helicopter takes off from the deck of a China Coast Guard vessel TOKYO (Jiji Press) — A Chinese helicopter flew in Japanese airspace around the Senkaku Islands for about 15 minutes on Saturday after taking off from a Chinese coast guard ship that intruded into Japanese territorial waters around the island chain in the East China Sea, Japan's Defense Ministry said. It was the fourth violation of Japanese airspace by a Chinese aircraft and the first since a Chinese warplane flew off the Danjo Islands in Nagasaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan, in August last year. Also, it was the third such violation around the Japanese-administered Senkaku Islands, which are claimed by China. According to the ministry and the Japan Coast Guard's 11th regional headquarters in Naha, the capital of the southernmost prefecture of Okinawa, where the Senkaku chain is located, four Haijing ships from the Chinese coast guard crossed into Japanese waters off the islands from around 12:18 p.m. Saturday. The helicopter took off from one of the ships and flew in Japanese airspace near the islands from around 12:21 p.m. to 12:36 p.m. before returning to the ship. Two F-15 fighters of the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force were scrambled in response to the airspace violation. The four Chinese ships left the Japanese territorial waters by around 1:03 p.m. The ministry is analyzing details including China's intention. Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Takehiro Funakoshi lodged a strong protest to Chinese Ambassador to Japan Wu Jianghao, urging the Chinese side to prevent a similar incident.
03-05-2025
- Politics
China Chopper Violates Japanese Airspace near Senkakus
News from Japan Society May 3, 2025 22:37 (JST) Tokyo, May 3 (Jiji Press)--A Chinese helicopter flew in Japanese airspace around the Senkaku Islands for about 15 minutes on Saturday after taking off from a Chinese coast guard ship that intruded into Japanese territorial waters around the island chain in the East China Sea, Japan's Defense Ministry said. It was the fourth violation of Japanese airspace by a Chinese aircraft and the first since a Chinese warplane flew off the Danjo Islands in Nagasaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan, in August last year. Also, it was the third such violation around the Japanese-administered Senkaku Islands, which are claimed by China. According to the ministry and the Japan Coast Guard's 11th regional headquarters in Naha, the capital of the southernmost prefecture of Okinawa, where the Senkaku chain is located, four Haijing ships from the Chinese coast guard crossed into Japanese waters off the islands from around 12:18 p.m. Saturday. The helicopter took off from one of the ships and flew in Japanese airspace near the islands from around 12:21 p.m. to 12:36 p.m. before returning to the ship. Two F-15 fighters of the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force were scrambled in response to the airspace violation. [Copyright The Jiji Press, Ltd.] Jiji Press
Japan Times
26-03-2025
- Politics
- Japan Times
Most Japanese high school textbooks to include QR codes
Almost all textbooks to be used by first- and second-year high school students in Japan from fiscal 2026 will include quick response (QR) codes that link to websites with video and audio learning aid materials, sources said Tuesday. The education ministry said the same day that a total of 253 textbooks in 13 subjects have passed the second screenings under the current curriculum guidelines. In response to the rapid progress of digitalization, many of the textbooks include descriptions on information ethics and generative artificial intelligence. The average number of pages per textbook in 11 commonly taught subjects came to 321, slightly up from the previous screenings in 2021. All geography-history and civics textbooks take up the Northern Territories, which are effectively controlled by Russia; Takeshima, the Sea of Japan islets controlled by South Korea; and the Japanese-administered Senkaku Islands, which are also claimed by China. Some textbooks originally did not mention that Takeshima and the Senkaku Islands are part of Japan's inherent territory, and were revised through the screenings to say so. Recent events covered in geography-history and civics textbooks include the Noto Peninsula earthquake on Jan. 1, 2024, as well as Russia's invasion of Ukraine and Israel's attacks on Gaza.
