Japan is setting up a special police force to help defend islands that it and China both claim

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Japan is setting up a special police force to help defend islands that it and China both claim
Reuters

     Japan plans to set up a special police unit to help defend the Senkaku Islands, a group of outcroppings that China also claims, calling them the Diaoyu Islands.

    The new force will be armed with automatic weapons and respond to potential scenarios that include an "illegal landing by an armed group."


TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan is bolstering its defense of a group of East China Sea islets disputed with China and other far-flung isles, with the establishment of a special police unit armed with automatic weapons, the public broadcaster NHK reported on Monday.

The police unit will be based on the southern island of Okinawa, which is 260 miles east of the disputed outcrops, which are controlled by Japan and known as the Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China.

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