Japanese group head to Senkaku sea area

Japanese group head to Senkaku sea area

ISHIGAKI, Japan - Fishing boats carrying a group of Japanese leave Ishigaki Island in Okinawa Prefecture on Aug. 18, 2012, for the sea area near the Japan-controlled Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea also claimed by China. The group including some Japanese lawmakers and local politicians headed to the sea area to commemorate the victims of U.S. attacks on vessels sailing around the area in 1945. The Japanese government did not allow them to land on the islands.

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