Japan confirms China set up buoy over its southern continental shelf

You know this is just the BEGINNING of whatever they plan to do next

Any buoy illegally set up by China must be immediately removed. No statements about the situation being "regrettable", no waiting for (fallacious) explanations from the totalitarian menace: just do it.

China only understands firm action, and cannot be trusted in any way.

Hayashi was so alarmed he dropped his cigar.

June to now and no investigation? If japan was concerned it would send someone to check it out and if it is military then remove it. These things always happen with counties and waters. Japan needs to start to get a long and act like the adult in the room when bully China is around. Stop playing the victim and start talking and taking the higher ground. Not complaining all the time. Seems they should investigate before wining about its installation.

A buoy ...is not anything sacred. ?

Japan must immediately launch a full scale armada invasion .!!!!!!

Or...just cut the rope holding the buoy .

They keep chipping away at Japan's (and others') resolve. They won't stop. But they will bleat about "correct actions" and maintaining peace and stability in the seas if you retaliate, even by removing the buoy (or shooting down the balloon, in other cases). Look at the troubles Australia and the Philippines have had with them. Time to take the grey-zone threats to China itself.

Japan is a victim for only the first time China pulls this nonsense. From the second time on Japan is a participant. Grow a spine, defend our territory there (at sea) or we will have to defend it here (on land). One more note of possible interest: there is a report that last week China had a skirmish with India that resulted in 4 dead Chinese soldiers. The death of these 4 soldiers ended 4 separate bloodlines and the revolt from the families was so great that the CCP reportedly gave the families a house and increased allowances. The reason for this that China’s 1-child policy has reduced the number of available men. In other words China does not have any number of men that can be sacrificed in military conflict. I say the next time China encroaches in our territory that we bloody their nose a bit. Like all bullies, China wants to be feared but needs to be protected. Pop them once and they might get the message. The opposite is also true.

A buoy ...is not anything sacred. ?

...yeah, but take those blinkers off, look at the whole picture. IMHO, Japan has to be prepared for what is to come out of these small insignificant events.

When considering China equities has never recovered from 2015-2016 bubble burst, local government debt skyhigh, demographics catastrophy, property sector dead, mass youth unemployment, misallocation of capital upsetting powerful lobbies, and YET, the CCP is dedicating focus on intangible geopolitical point scoring against Japan, Taiwan, Philippines, Oceania....what is this saying? They're trying to create an environment for war.

On top of all this, they are sending ex-PLA mercenaries to Russia for the Ukraine war, AND they have threatened them with joblessness if they come home too soon.

How about Japan setting up a buoy of its own right next to each of the Chinese ones and see how China will react.

Unless the Japanese remove it the Chinese have won. They’ll say it has established a border and a “correct understanding of history” and then defend it with rhe PLA.

Japan has just ceded the entirety of its territory if it does nothing. I assume they’ll do nothing.

I guess they want to control the Chinese to not swim out of their area.....

Of China behaved better it would have approached Japan first about the buoy before installing it. Japan should examine the buoy to see whether it really is there to measure earth tremors, and if it isn't, then publish widely what they have found, and express disappointment to China.

Go remove it. Add insult to injury. Send it back to Chinas door step.

They are not monitoring Whales that's for sure.

Keep on messing around China, see what comes. Do not put too much stock and emphasis on Japan and its citizens patience. All things must come to end. Once Japan goes aggressive. China ought to know. It takes a monumental effort for the Japanese to pull and scale back.

They have allot of pinned up frustration towards you. Like down to the last man and bullet type.

The resident foreign community surely views such incidents with a growing sense of unease and trepidation. As China continues to ratchet up tensions in its efforts to supplant the US as the dominant power in East Asia, they may well come to a decision that they’re not prepared to chance the increasingly Sinophilic vassal state Japan’s likely to resemble and decide to hightail it out of here instead.

Please stop being so passive, they don't listen to anything but action, just go get rid of it. These statements just makes them more confident no one will stope them, and they will continue to escalate it until most people just assumes it belongs to China.

Man why is China so annoying ? Blow it out of the water.

Honestly, when was the last time you heard GOOD news related to China?

Things that float don't when they get a hole in them, they sink.

This is plain bad manners, first and foremost.

Of course they did, you push and push the boundaries until someone reacts, then scream bloody murder.

Not sure what the unclos says about the matter but bouy is in the high seas

> TOKYO

The Japanese government said Friday it has confirmed China has installed a buoy in the high seas over Japan's southern continental shelf in the Pacific Ocean,

well...help them calibrate it...give it a tsunami every day

US has weather buoy all over the world, even in the Pacific

Yrral...yes....but this is CHINA !!! the "evil one with the yellowy eyes "...or something like that.

And claims of China's economic collapse {see above } are unlikely when the whole world buys Chinese products.

Dont like China ?

OK....dont buy Chinese products.

Japan should ask the Philippines for a second opinion.

The only thing China understands and respects is force. A diplomatic protest means nothing. It is time to act and remove the buoy, and let China know any future buoys in Japan’s zones will be destroyed. The provocations will only escalate, as will the eventual response that will have to take place. Act now!

Japan should just take the buoy. No explanation needed. It is in their EEZ waters. If they replace it, take the next ones as well.

I suspect that Japan makes wave data available for tsunami prediction centers world-wide. Can't China just get the data from those existing S-Net resources? https://earth-planets-space.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40623-021-01368-6

If China wants to contribute to the network of sensors, I bet all the other impacted countries would appreciate it.

The Chinese spokeswoman said not to make a fuss of it because it's in "international water". Then Japan can either take it because it belongs to no one, and start populating senkakus because it belongs to us, and XiXiPee can't make a fuss of it either.

But of course, Japanese government has no guts at all, the Keidanren rules over it and it says to bow to the XiXiPee.

Stop playing the victim Japan, just go remove it without all the "China is being mean" press releases.

Setting up a buoy in international waters by one country may not be so worrisome for another country to be. 

But isn't it courteous for the buoy-setting up country to inform its intention to the international community or at least relevant littoral countries as to why it's doing so? 

It's this assertiveness on the part of China that causes so much tensions in today's world.

Still cant find the source....Guru's generally have poor computer search skills..... {Shimon above }

Funny how mainstream sites {BBC and others } are silent on your claim.

A conspiracy maybe ????

Boy! I love a good conspiracy.

How do the Chinese speaking Chinese troops communicate with their Russian speaking Russian commanders ?

Google translate ?

Could be problematic.

I asked the Condo head of services "please explain why..."

Came back as "My Prince Charming..."

No lie.

Guru's never knowingly lie.

We do question illogical positions and silly statements on forums...but lie ?...Never.

China says it's for scientific research to investigate tsunamis, but isn't a buoy potentially like a spy satellite.

If you let them get away with this, then they'll set up buoys all over the place, won't they?

Japan should remove it and retrieve it and see what the buoy is capable of to better understand China's intentions.

Japan should take it away or just blow it up.

It's in international waters

China has you all bunched up and screaming. It’s just a buoy.

I’m all for Japan placing a bunch of these in international waters near Chinese territory as well. Nothing wrong with it.

Don't say anything, just remove the buoy. If the Chinese set up another, remove it too. SImple.

It is funny how these "no news" on China activities, perfectly legal by the way, are spread out with perfect timing by Washington to distract audience from he main and most important story: the frightening and escalating sexual violence of US forces on Japanese women in Okinawa, and the arrogance of US Ambassador Rahm Emanuel who did not even have the decency to apologize.

China simply explained that placing the buoy has been done "for the purposes of scientific research", a well-established international practice based on the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea. And that is enough. It is not an atomic bomb!

I would advice to put these two news into contest, because there is always a connection.

FosJuly 6  11:07 pm JST

It is funny how these "no news" on China activities, perfectly legal by the way, are spread out with perfect timing by Washington to distract audience from he main and most important story: the frightening and escalating sexual violence of US forces on Japanese women in Okinawa, and the arrogance of US Ambassador Rahm Emanuel who did not even have the decency to apologize. 

China simply explained that placing the buoy has been done "for the purposes of scientific research", a well-established international practice based on the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea. And that is enough. It is not an atomic bomb! 

I would advice to put these two news into contest, because there is always a connection.

I highly doubt there is a connection between the two sexual assault cases and China's provocation.