The Japan Coast Guard confirmed Thursday that two China Coast Guard vessels intruded into Japanese territorial waters off the Senkaku Islands and stayed in the waters for 64 hours, the longest single intrusion since Japan nationalized the islands in 2012.
The Chinese vessels left the territorial waters Thursday night. The time spent by such Chinese ships in Japanese waters off the Senkakus in Ishigaki, Okinawa Prefecture, exceeded the previous record of 57 hours 39 minutes logged in October 2020.
