Decked out with flags and T-shirts calling for the protection of their fishing grounds and armed with crates of eggs to hurl at any Japanese coastguards who interfere, Taiwanese fishermen yesterday set sail in a flotilla of nearly 80 boats towards the contested Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea.
Although the rocky outcrops, which are known as the Diaoyu in Chinese, are at the centre of a fierce diplomatic dispute between China and Japan, they are also claimed by Taiwan.
Tensions yesterday were inflamed further when three Chinese patrol vessels were spotted in Japanese territorial waters.
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