Source: South China Morning PostTokyo has been put in an “impossible situation” after local government officials in Ishigaki asked permission to travel to a group of islands at the centre of a territorial dispute between Japan and China.
A spokesman for Ishigaki’s city hall said an application had been submitted to the national government for the officials to travel by boat to the Senkaku Islands, which lie about 170km north of Ishigaki, the most southerly part of Okinawa. The islands are officially under Japan’s…Read More