Japan fires water cannon at activists
From Times Wire Reports
Japanese patrol vessels fired a water cannon at a boat carrying Chinese activists who were protesting Japanese claims to territory in the East China Sea, the activist group said.
A boat carrying the protesters arrived Sunday evening near five disputed islets known as the Diaoyutai islands in China and Senkaku in Japan, according to the activists’ group, the Hong Kong-registered China Federation of Defending Diaoyutai Islands.
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