By Philippine News Agency/Kyodo TOKYO, Aug. 6 — Japan lodged a protest with China on Saturday after spotting more than 200 Chinese vessels in waters near the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, the Japanese Foreign Ministry said. Location map photo courtesy of TheSocialHumanist.com About 230 fishing boats as well as six China Coast Guard vessels were confirmed in a contiguous zone near the Japanese-controlled uninhabited islets, which are claimed by China, which calls them Diaoyu. The number is much larger than usual. “This is a unilateral act that raises tensions…and it is unacceptable to us,” Kenji Kanasugi, director general of the ministry’s Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, told the Chinese Embassy in Japan, according to the ministry.
