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Japan's First Line of Defense

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Oct 09, 2012
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Repeated incursions into Japanese territorial waters, as Tokyo defines them, are putting severe strains on the Japanese Coast Guard, the agency tasked with maintaining Japan’s control over the controversial Sentaku islands in the middle of the East China Sea, known to the Chinese as the Daioyu.

Normally thought of in terms of rescuing sailors in peril on…

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