By Ankit Panda

November 30, 2015

"The East China Sea, the site of a territorial dispute between China and Japan over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands, is set to become more crowded. Japan is expected to deploy additional troops to an island near the disputed islands. Last Thursday, Japan's deputy defense minister, Kenji Wakamiya, met with the mayor of Ishigaki Island to brief him on a plan to deploy 500 Japanese Self-Defense Forces (SDF) ground troops there.

Ishigaki is southwest of Okinawa and part of the Ryukyu island chain in the East China Sea. The Ryukyus form the eastern frontier of the sea and head southeast from Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan’s main islands. The disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu islands are approximately 90 nautical miles northwest of Ishigaki. Notably, Ishigaki, for administrative purposes, exercises jurisdiction over the disputed islands."

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http://thediplomat.com/2015/11/japan-set-to-boost-east-china-sea-troop-presence/

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