The ministry is promoting the deployment of surface-to-ship guided missile units on Okinawa’s Miyako and Ishigaki islands in response to the Chinese military, which has stepped up its activities in the East China Sea, including waters around the Japanese-administered Senkaku Islands.
China unilaterally declared the ADIZ over the waters in 2013, a declaration that stoked concern at the time but which has largely been ignored by Japan and the United States.
China unilaterally declared the ADIZ over the waters in 2013, a declaration that stoked concern at the time but which has largely been ignored by Japan and the United States.
