TOKYO: Japan arrested a group of Hong Kong activists for landing on an island claimed by both Japan and China in the latest episode of an issue that has damaged relations between Asia’s two biggest economies.
Five activists were detained and Japan summoned the Chinese ambassador to lodge a complaint, Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura said today in Tokyo.
The islands in the East China Sea are known as Senkaku in Japanese and Daioyu in Chinese, and sovereignty over the area would give the holder rights to undersea oil reserves. The collision of a Chinese fishing boat with two Japanese Coast Guard vessels in September 2010 sent bilateral relations to the lowest level in at least five years. (Bloomberg/aph)
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