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Japan simulated ‘foreign’ invasion of Diaoyu Islands in East China Sea with drill involving Self-Defence Forces, coastguard and police
Tokyo initially said the drill in Nagasaki prefecture on November 20 was ‘not intended for a specific island or a country’
But government sources said the island used resembled one of the Diaoyu/Senkaku islets, which are controlled by Japan but claimed by China
Japan conducted a drill last month at a remote southwestern island under the assumption that foreign forces had occupied Japanese-administered islands claimed by China, known as Diaoyu/Senkaku.
Several government sources told Kyodo News that a drill involving the Self-Defence Forces (Japan’s de facto military), coastguard and police took place at an uninhabited island in Nagasaki prefecture with land features resembling Uotsuri Island, one of the islets that make up the Diaoyu/Senkaku islands in the East China Sea.
Following the two-day drill from November 20 on Tsutara Island in Goto, Nagasaki prefecture, the government had said the exercise was aimed at improving Japan’s response to emergency situations in the country’s island areas, and was “not intended for a specific island or a country.”