TOKYO (AP) — Japan's Coast Guard says a group of Japanese activists have landed on Uotsuri, one of a group of islands at the center of an escalating territorial dispute with China. The Coast Guard in southern Japan's Okinawa prefecture said nine or 10 activists had landed without authorization early Sunday in the small archipelago known in Japan as the Senkakus and in China as the Diaoyu islands. Plans for the visit drew a protest from China's Foreign Ministry. Photos from Japan's Kyodo News Agency showed several men and a woman brandishing the Japanese flag atop rocks on the shore of the uninhabited island. Join the IHT on Facebook for more of the global conversation. East Asia's Sea...
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