Chinese ship may have conducted survey in Japan’s EEZ around Senkakus

A Chinese marine research vessel was spotted extending a wire-like object into the ocean within Japan’s exclusive economic zone around the Senkaku Islands, the Japanese coast guard said Saturday. The coast guard said it urged the Chinese vessel to stop its activity in waters off Okinawa Prefecture, southwestern Japan, suspecting that it was a survey conducted without Japan’s prior consent. It took six hours for the ship to leave the EEZ, according to the coast guard. The coast guard spotted the Chinese ship some 106 kilometers north-northwest of one of the Senkaku Islands at around 7:15 a.m. The uninhabited islets…