Japan has called its ambassador to China back to Tokyo for discussions on a territorial dispute straining relations between East Asia’s leading powers.
The temporary return of ambassador Uichiro Niwa highlights growing tensions over the Japanese-controlled Senkaku islands, an uninhabited group of islands in the East China Sea that are also claimed by Beijing, which calls them the Diaoyu.
Japan on Wednesday protested as “extremely serious” and “unacceptable” the entry of three Chinese state fisheries patrol vessels into territorial waters around the potentially resource-rich islands, which are also claimed by Taiwan.
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