Facing a potential attack from China on the Diaoyutai (Diaoyu or Senkaku) islands, the Japanese government under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is likely to revise the nation's self-defense laws to give the country's military more authority to defend the islands, according to our sister paper Want Daily.
A source from the Japanese defense ministry told the Tokyo-based Kyodo News that China would not necessarily take the disputed East China Sea islands with regular military forces. Under some projected scenarios, irregular forces could disguise themselves as shipwrecked sailors to land on the island and claim refuge. Under the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act of Japan, only police officers instead of military personnel would be allowed to handle Chinese "refugees" in such a scenario
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