Tokyo and Taipei have agreed to amend fishing regulations in a landmark pact covering waters off a cluster of Taiwan-claimed, Japan-administered islands in the East China Sea, Taiwan's Foreign Ministry said Saturday.
The ministry said in a statement that the Taiwan-Japan joint fishery committee reached the agreement Friday after three days of talks in Tokyo.
The two countries signed a bilateral fisheries pact in April 2013 to allow reciprocal fishing in what Japan regards as its exclusive economic zone near the Japanese-administered Senkaku Islands, known as Tiaoyutai in Taiwan and Diaoyu in China, which also claim them.