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Unidentified sub enters Japanese waters



TOKYO (Kyodo) — An unidentified submarine entered Japanese waters Wednesday for about two hours from around 6 a.m., Japan’s Defense Agency officials said, with agency sources adding that the vessel is suspected of being Chinese.
The intrusion prompted the Japanese government to order the Maritime Self-Defense Force to take security action for only the second time ever, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda said. But he conceded later in the day that it was only after the submarine left Japanese waters that the order was issued.

Japanese P-3C patrol planes detected the submarine, which entered Japanese territorial waters off a chain of islets in Okinawa in the early

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