BEIJING: Japan has joined India, the Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam and Taiwan to lodge protests against China over its new “standard map” for including the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea as part of its territory.
Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno told the media in Tokyo on Tuesday that Japan has lodged a strong protest to China through diplomatic channels over a new map released by Beijing last month. Tokyo urged Beijing to rescind the map because it has a description based on China’s unilateral claims on the Senkaku Islands in southern Japan’s Okinawa Prefecture.