A TV news report in June about China's oil field development close to the Sino-Japanese demarcation line for their exclusive economic zones in the East China Sea prompted an adviser to Uruma Resources Development Co. to recall a conversation he had with a bureaucrat decades ago.
According to the news report, the Japanese government has expressed displeasure with Beijing's East China Sea oil project and will carry out its own exploration, with trial drillings in sight.
"Nothing has changed," said Masao Araki, 81.