December 1, 2014

"Japan's highest-ranking military officer has urged an early start to a "crisis management" mechanism with China amid conflicting claims to a group of tiny East China Sea islands.

Relations between China and Japan, the world's second-and third-largest economies, have also been strained by the legacy of Japan's wartime occupation of its larger Asian neighbor.

Patrol ships and fighter jets from both countries have shadowed each other regularly near the uninhabited islands, prompting fears an accidental collision or other incident could escalate into a larger conflict."

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