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Chinese ‘purchase’ of Japanese island causes stir

Yanaha Island is a popular fishing and camping site, local authorities in Okinawa say. (Photo: Geospatial Information Authority of Japan via Wikimedia Commons)

BEIJING: A Chinese woman’s claim that she has purchased an uninhabited island in Okinawa Prefecture of Japan has caused a stir online, with some expressing envy and others dubbing the move “an expansion of Chinese territory”.

The woman in her 30s told Chinese media that a company run by her relative had bought Yanaha Island, located north of the main island of Okinawa in southern Japan.

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