On the night of April 3, the fishing boat “Tsurumaru” belonging to the Yaeyama Fishing Association, which was fishing in the waters around the Diaoyu Islands, returned to Ishigaki Island in Okinawa Prefecture. According to a member of Ishigaki City Council who was on board, the Chinese Coast Guard ship, which entered what Japan considers to be “territorial waters” around the Diaoyu Islands, tried to approach Tsurumaru, and a Japanese Coast Guard patrol ship came quickly and tried to enter between the Chinese Coast Guard ship and Tsurumaru. “The Japanese Coast Guard patrol boat quickly came to protect the Japanese fishing boat between the Chinese Coast Guard ship and Tsurumaru, and almost collided with the Chinese Coast Guard ship at close range. The councilor said, “I felt that the Japanese patrol ship was sincere in protecting the fishing vessel.”
According to the Maritime Security Headquarters of the 11th Administrative Region, two marine police ships of the Chinese Coast Guard Bureau entered the territorial waters around the Senkaku Islands for about 26 hours and wanted to approach Japanese fishing boats, and sailed out of the territorial waters around 1:30 p.m. on the 3rd, but still sailed in the adjacent area. The Chinese Coast Guard ship has been intruding into the territorial waters around the Senkaku Islands for two consecutive days, the 13th day this year.
The “Tsurumaru” has a city council member and three other people in the boat, arrived at the waters around the Diaoyu Islands around noon on the 2nd, the council member said that the Chinese Maritime Police Bureau’s “Marine Police 6402” and “Marine Police 2502 ” 2 marine police ships were already in front of the standby, and immediately began to chase “Tsurumaru”.
“Tsurumaru” moved to the north and south islets and started fishing, but the China Coast Guard Bureau’s marine police ships continued to chase after it, and the marine police ships approached Tsurumaru for a while, and the distance was only about 40 meters. It is said that the patrol boat “Nagayama” of the Coast Guard, in order to stop the ship, rushed between the Chinese Coast Guard ship and the fishing boat “Tsurumaru” with the courage of not being afraid of a collision.
The coast guard ship continued to chase the “Tsurumaru” on the afternoon of the 3rd, and the tailing time reached about 27 hours. The Japanese Coast Guard patrol ship continued to protect the “Tsurumaru” and issued a warning that “the Chinese Coast Guard ship needs to withdraw from Japan’s territorial waters immediately.”
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