Suspected Chinese sub enters Japan waters
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Japan&#39;s Defense Agency suspects that an unidentified submarine sighted in Japanese waters early Wednesday was a Chinese nuclear submarine, Kyodo News reports.
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THE detection of a foreign submarine in Japan&#39;s southern coastal waters threatens to aggravate tensions between Tokyo and Beijing.
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Japan&#39;s navy went on alert Wednesday when an unidentified submarine made a brief incursion into the country&#39;s southern waters near Okinawa and Tokyo was trying to determine where the vessel came from.
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Japan TOKYO -- Japan lodged a formal protest with Beijing yesterday after determining that a nuclear submarine that entered its territorial waters without identifying itself belonged to China. Japan's navy had been on alert since Wednesday, when the submarine was first spotted off the nation's southern island of Okinawa. Tokyo sent reconnaissance aircraft and naval destroyers to shadow the submarine, ...
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The government ordered the Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) to chase an unidentified submarine that was spotted in Japan&#39;s territorial waters around southwestern Okinawa Prefecture Wednesday morning, a government spokesman 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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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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BEIJING : China said on Thursday it knew nothing about a submarine that entered Japanese waters near a disputed gas field and sparked a high seas chase.
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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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Japan has summoned a Chinese diplomat after determining the nuclear submarine that entered its territorial waters near a disputed gas field and set off a high-seas chase did come from its giant neighbor.
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Japan said China apologized on Tuesday  for the intrusion by one of its submarines into Japanese waters  last week in a gesture that defuses a dispute and may open the  way for a bilateral summit this week.
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China maintained a stony silence  Saturday in the face of Japan's charges that one of its  nuclear-powered submarines intruded into Japanese waters this  week.
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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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TOKYO : Japan was on alert after a suspected Chinese nuclear submarine entered its territorial waters, prompting Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to voice concern, officials and reports said.
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Japan lodged a formal protest with the Chinese government on Friday after determining that an unidentified nuclear submarine that entered its territorial waters this week belonged to China.
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Japan lodged a formal protest with Beijing on Friday after determining that a nuclear submarine that entered its territorial waters without identifying itself belonged to China.
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China has admitted that one of its  submarines accidentally intruded into Japanese waters last week  and has apologized for the incident, Japan's top government  spokesman Hiroyuki Hosoda said Tuesday.