Japan opens radar station close to disputed East China Sea islands

The new Self Defence Force base on Yonaguni is at the western extreme of a string of Japanese islands in the East China Sea, 150km south of the disputed islands known as the Senkaku islands in Japan and the Diaoyu in China.      "This radar station is going to irritate China," said Nozomu Yoshitomi, a professor at Nihon University and a former major general in the Self Defence Force. In addition to being a listening post, the facility could be used as a base for military operations in the...
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