Tokyo gov't inspects Senkaku Islands

Tokyo gov't inspects Senkaku Islands

NAHA, Japan - Photo taken from an airplane chartered by Kyodo News shows (from front) Minamikojima, Kitakojima and Uotsuri, part of the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, on Sept. 2, 2012. A Tokyo metropolitan government team the same day conducted an offshore inspection of the islands as part of its plan to buy land on them amid a growing territorial row with China over the uninhabited islets.

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