Japan spots 230 Chinese fishing boats
 

TOKYO: Some 230 Chinese fishing vessels and seven coast guard ships, including four apparently carrying *******, sailed into waters close to disputed East China Sea islands on Saturday, Japan’s foreign ministry and coastguard said.

Six Chinese coast guard ships were spotted earlier in the day and late Saturday after**on Japanese officials said they spotted a**ther, which seemed to be carrying arms, in the contiguous waters of the uninhabited islands.

The two countries are locked in a long-running dispute over the rocky islets -- k**wn as the Senkaku in Japan and the Diaoyu in China -- but it is rare for so many Chinese fishing vessels to be spotted in the disputed waters.

"We can**t be sure about what the Chinese coast guards are doing for what purposes in the waters," a Japanese coast guard official said.

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