Ishigaki mayor seeks to visit disputed island

TOKYO, Japan - Ishigaki Mayor Yoshitaka Nakayama (L) hands to Masanori Miyahara, a senior official of Japan's Fisheries Agency, a document requesting the central government's approval of the mayor to visit one of the disputed Senkaku Islands in the South China Sea, at the agency in Tokyo on June 10, 2011. Nakayama made the request to visit Uotsuri Island to hold a memorial service for those who died off the island during World War II.

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