New Japan Coast Guard units deployed
The Japan Coast Guard (JCG) will deploy a new unit in Okinawa prefecture in two to three years’ time, with its primary role to warn Chinese fishing boats that have repeatedly trespassed and fished illegally in Japanese waters.
The unit will be located in Irabujima, 130km southwest of Okinawa Island and 170km southeast of the Senkaku Islands.
The JCG has continuously despatched patrol vessels around the Senkakus to guard Japanese territorial waters from Chinese parapublic vessels since 2010. Ongoing deployments around the Senkakus have been a burden to the JCG as it has no manpower to spare. Indeed, the JCG
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