On Tuesday a fleet of Taiwanese fishing vessels and armed coast guard ships entered the disputed waters around the Senkaku/Diaoyu island chain. Japanese coast guard ships attempted to turn them away by firing water cannons at the Taiwanese ships. The ships left Taiwan on Monday to stake a claim to the disputed chain but have since left the territorial waters. A Taiwanese official was quoted as saying that the coast guard vessels were "armed and ordered to defend their vessels in the face of Japanese aggression." On Sunday Taiwanese activists held a rally in Taipei against Japan.
Japanese vice foreign minister Chikao Kawai also arrived in Beijing on Monday in order to help defuse the mounting tensions. Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda said "I plan to talk about preventing conflict and looking towards a peaceful solution in my general speech," as he was departing for New York.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2012/09/20129255327498152.html
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