A Chinese frigate has referred January 30 Japanese military boat with a radar that is used to lock a target to reach, said Tuesday the Japanese Minister of Defense.
On 30 January, a fire control radar was directed to escort a ship SDF (Japanese armed forces) in the East China Sea. The Department has today confirmed a radar sighting was used Itsunori Onodera said at a press conference convened specially for the occasion.
The minister also said that a Japanese military helicopter was also locked in the same way a few days ago.
Use this type of radar is quite unusual (...) and this could create a very dangerous situation for the slightest mistake, continued Itsunori Onodera.
He also said that Tokyo would ask China to refrain from such dangerous actions.
This incident occurs in any case in a very tense between the two countries since last September, about a territorial dispute in the East China Sea on a small uninhabited island.
On Tuesday, the Chinese ambassador to Tokyo once again been summoned to the Foreign Ministry, following a raid on the eve of Chinese government vessels in the territorial waters of the Senkaku Islands, a rosary under Japanese administration that Beijing claims as Diaoyu name.
Beijing regularly sends vessels, but also had around the Senkaku, since the Japanese government has nationalized in September three of these five islands by purchasing their own private Japanese.
The territorial dispute was then abruptly worsened, including a week of anti-Japanese demonstrations, sometimes violent, throughout China.
In operation since late December, the Conservative Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, has been clear from the start: Japanese sovereignty over these islands is not negotiable.
Faced with this renewed tensions, Tokyo has recently announced the formation of a special force of 600 men and 12 vessels to monitor and protect the Senkaku archipelago, including ten new buildings of 1,000 tons.
It all incrit under increased defense spending for the first time in over a decade.
The uninhabited islands of Senkaku / Diaoyu is located 200 km north-east coast of Taiwan and 400 km west of the island of Okinawa (southern Japan). In addition to its strategic position, the island would conceal hydrocarbons in its seabed
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