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外国媒体报道
Japan lodges protest with China
TOKYO (AP) - Japan lodged a formal protest with China on Friday after determining a nuclear submarine that entered its territorial waters without identifying itself belonged to China.
Japan\'s navy has been on alert since Wednesday, when the submarine was first spotted off Japan\'s southern island Okinawa. Japan sent reconnaissance aircraft and naval destroyers to shadow the submarine, which had spent about two hours inside Japanese waters before heading north.
Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura summoned Chinese envoy Cheng Yong-hua to formally protest the incursion and demand an explanation, a ministry spokesman said on customary condition of anonymity.
Cheng said Chinese authorities were investigating the incident and he would pass the protest onto Beijing, the spokesman said. Kyodo News Agency quoted Cheng saying he could not offer an immediate apology.
Earlier, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda said Tokyo had concluded it was a Chinese nuclear submarine after considering a range of factors, including the fact the vessel appeared to be heading toward China.
\"Judging from several pieces of information, we found that the submarine belongs to the Chinese navy,\" Hosoda told a news conference.
Hosoda said while Tokyo believed in maintaining peaceful diplomatic relations and promoting friendship with China, it expected an appropriate response from Beijing.
\"It\'s up to what follows. We have to take into consideration many things, such as how China responds and Japan\'s public opinion,\" he said.
\"The question is how we deal with this issue in the big picture.\"
Defence Agency chief Yoshinori Ono lifted Japan\'s naval alert Friday, Hosoda said. He didn\'t specify whether the aircraft and destroyers were returning home.
Earlier, Japanese news media had cited defence officials saying the vessel likely was a Chinese Han-class nuclear submarine, based on the noise it was making and the time it had stayed beneath the sea\'s surface.
Beijing had no immediate comment. On Thursday, China\'s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue said she didn\'t know if the vessel was Chinese and discouraged \"any random suppositions on this questions.\"
Territorial disputes have occasionally flared up between Japan and its neighbours, China and South Korea. In recent months, Tokyo has squabbled with Beijing over natural gas deposits in the East China Sea.
Japan has accused China of conducting surveys for gas fields near Okinawa that extend into Japanese territorial waters. China said its activities are close to its coast and don\'t concern Japan and has rejected offering more information.
Japan has been considering ways to boost its maritime defences after a shoot-out with a suspected North Korean spy ship in December 2001.
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