Tokyo lodged a protest with Beijing after an “unaccepable” request to stop conducting marine research was issued to a Japan Coast Guard ship operating in Japan’s exclusive economic zone, Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura said Monday.
“We told China via diplomatic channels that we are conducting legitimate marine research within our EEZ and the activity cannot be halted,” Fujimura said in a news conference.
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