Chinese missiles which were fired toward Taiwan landed in Japanese waters, according to Tokyo. Five ballistic missiles landed in the exclusive economic zone of Japan.
The Japanese government stated that the missiles fell in the EEZ part of a Chinese-designated training area southwest of Hateruma Island in the southern prefecture of Okinawa, marking the first time that Chinese ballistic missiles have dropped within the waters, according to Kyodo News.
Infuriated by the incident, Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi has asked Beijing to immediately suspend its military exercise near Taiwan.
Taipei stated that the communist regime fired 11 ballistic missiles into waters off its south-western and north-eastern coasts on Thursday. China started firing missiles around 2 pm (local time) and kept firing till 4 pm.
The island of Yonaguni, which belongs to Japan, sits around 70 miles off Taiwan’s eastern coast and Japan’s ‘economic zone’ – waters in which it has special rights – covers about half the distance between the two, reported Daily Mail.
Japan’s Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi called termed Beijing’s move extremely coercive. He underlined that China’s acts concern Japan’s national security and the safety of the people.
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