The Defense Ministry said Saturday that a foreign submarine headed west underwater in a contiguous zone northeast of Amami Oshima Island, in Kagoshima Prefecture, on Thursday afternoon.
Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyers and patrol aircraft monitored the submarine, which was traveling west outside a contiguous zone west of the prefecture's Yokoate Island on Saturday morning, according to the ministry.
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