Hosoda Says Chinese Submarine Entered Japanese Waters
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Japan has identified the submarine spotted in Japanese waters on Nov. 10 as belonging to China&#39;s navy, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda said.
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China has admitted that one of its submarines accidentally intruded into Japanese waters last week and has apologised for the incident, Japan&#39;s top government spokesman Hiroyuki Hosoda says.
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YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK. Feb 5 (Interfax) - The crew of the Japanese fishing boat, the Zuishe Maru 38, except the skipper, have been turned over to Japanese coastguard officials, spokesman for the Federal Security Service's Sakhalin coast guards Yevgeny Lazarev said.
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Japan is to formally protest to China after saying a submarine found in its waters on Wednesday was Chinese.
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China acknowledged today for the first time that one of its submarines had accidentally crossed into Japanese waters last week and expressed regret over the incursion, Japanâs foreign minister said.
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Japan will protest to China after  concluding that a nuclear-powered submarine that intruded into  its waters this week belonged to the Chinese navy, top  government spokesman Hiroyuki Hosoda said on Friday.
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Facing strong protests, China broke a week-long silence Tuesday and offered Japan its first explanation about a Chinese submarine that Tokyo said intruded into Japanese territorial waters and refused to signal its identity.
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Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda, center, is surrounded by reporters as he speaks on a body found in Iraq at the prime minister&#39;s official residence in Tokyo Saturday, Oct. 30, 2004.
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TOKYO - An unidentified submarine was detected moving in Japanese waters near Okinawa on Wednesday, prompting Japan&#39;s Defense Agency chief Yoshinori Ono to dispatch a Maritime Self-Defense Force team to step up security in the area.
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(InfoWorld) - Google is offering a rare public glimpse of China's new ballistic-missile submarine, according to a researcher at the Federation of American Scientists. "The new submarine was photographed by the commercial Quickbird satellite in late 2006 and the image is freely available on the Google Earth Web site," wrote Hans Kristensen on the Strategic Security Blog. Kristensen identified the submarine, pictured alongside a naval pier, as a Jin-class vessel, one of five that China is expected to build. Comparing the Google Earth image with a picture of China's existing Xia-class submarine, Kristensen was able to discern some of the features of the new submarine. "The Jin-class appears to be approximately 35 feet (10 meters) longer than the Xia-class [submarine], primarily due to an extended mid-section of approximately 115 feet (35 meters) that houses the missile launch tubes and part of the reactor compartment," Kristensen wrote. But the picture was not clear enough to resolve a debate over whether the Jin-class submarine has tubes for 12 or 16 nuclear-tipped missiles. Discovery of the submarine image is likely to cause consternation within China's military, which generally keeps as low a profile as possible. If so, it wouldn't be the first time that Google Earth has caused worry inside China's government. In 2006, government officials reportedly expressed concerns over Google Earth imagery of the Zhongnanhai leadership compound in Beijing, an area normally off limits to prying public eyes.
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TOKYO : Japan&#39;s media has condemned the intrusion of a Chinese nuclear submarine into its waters with most newspapers saying Beijing should accept a demand from Tokyo to apologise over the incident.
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ELEANOR HALL: Diplomatic tensions erupted between China and Japan this week over a mystery submarine in Japanese waters. The Japanese Government had blamed the Chinese for the incursion.
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Japan will respond ``severely&#39;&#39; to North Korea&#39;s failure to provide evidence there are no more Japanese abductees left alive in that country, said Hiroyuki Hosoda, Japan&#39;s chief government spokesman.
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Japan was waiting Sunday for China to respond to claims that a nuclear-powered Chinese submarine entered Japanese waters. Japan&#39;s Trade Minister Shoichi Nakagawa said Sunday
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After days of speculation and a chase by Japanese destroyers and a surveillance plane, it has finally been determined that the nuclear submarine that intruded into Japanese territorial water between Okinawa and Taiwan was Chinese.
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Japan took up with China the issue of a suspicious submarine that intruded into its waters amid alarm in Tokyo that the vessel was a show of strength from its neighbour and growing competitor.
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There is a military alert in Japan after an unidentified submarine is detected inside the country's waters.