(1)Aerial inspection confirms China's new gas exploration facilities

TOKYO, Japan - Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Shoichi Nakagawa speaks to reporters at Haneda airport in Tokyo on June 23. Nakagawa, who examined the area from a Japan Coast Guard airplane, said he had confirmed the existence of a complex for a natural gas project being carried out by a Chinese consortium near Japan's exclusive economic zone in the East China Sea.

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