10 Japanese land on disputed Senkakus

ISHIGAKI, Japan - Eriko Yamatani, a member of the House of Councillors, offers a sacred tree on the morning of Aug. 19, 2012, during a ceremony to remember the victims of U.S. attacks in 1945 on vessels near the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea. Later that morning, 10 Japanese landed on Uotsuri Island, one of the uninhabited Senkaku Islands, which are at the center of a territorial row with China.

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