Lawmakers who saw video footage Monday of the collisions between a Chinese trawler and two Japan Coast Guard cutters near the Senkaku Islands in early September said it proved the fishing boat rammed the Japanese vessels.
The 7-minute video was shown to about 30 members of the Lower House and Upper House budget committees. All were banned from bringing in recording devices or cell phones for the viewing.
"I could clearly see that the fishing boat was crashing into" the JCG ships, said Hiroshi Nakai, chairman of the Lower House Budget Committee.