The Japanese government on Tuesday affirmed a new guideline to enhance its surveillance and guard system over its remote islands, as well as disputed territories with its neighboring countries, in line with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's hawkish policies on territorial disputes.
The new guideline said that the government will continue to nationalize non-ownership remote islands and set up a system aiming at enhancing its surveillance over disputed islands in the East China Sea (administered by Japan as the Senkaku but claimed by China as the Diaoyu and by Taiwan as the Diaoyutai), according to local reports.
The new surveillance system included adopting large surveillance vessels to patrol surrounding areas of the disputed islands and a mechanism of 24-hour aircraft surveillance, despite the risk of further straining Japan's ties with China and increasing the possibility of a contingency in the surrounding area.
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