Missile destroyer of Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy «Xi An»TOKYO, Jun 22< /strong> Japanese Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi called the passage of Russian and Chinese ships along its coast a «demonstration of military presence.» Self-Defense reported that the Self-Defense Forces tracked the passage of five Russian warships from north to southwest along the country's east coast. It was reported that the Udaloy anti-submarine ship, three Sentinel-class patrol ships and the Marshal Nedelin measuring complex ship from June 15 passed from the east coast of Hokkaido, past Chiba Prefecture to the southwest, to Okinawa Prefecture, and went towards East — China Sea. Then, on June 21, the ships entered the Sea of Japan through the Tsushima Strait, thus circumnavigating almost the entire territory of Japan. Around the same time from June 12, the Japanese Self-Defense Forces also tracked the passage of Chinese warships through the Tsushima Strait to the northern island of Hokkaido, and then along the eastern coast of Japan to the south.
Japan protested to the PRC due to the entry of Chinese ships into the waters off Senkaku
