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    • Japan challenges incursions by Chinese ships 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Philippine Daily Inquirer, February 9, 2021, on page B3)
      Japan said Monday it has protested to China over two incursions into Japanese territorial waters that come after Beijing enacted legislation toughening its response to violations of its maritime territory.

    • Japan may dump radioactive water into the sea-minister 

      Reuters (Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 11, 2019, on page A14)
      Japan's Tokyo Electric Power will have to dump radioactive water from its destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean as it runs out of room to store it, Environment Minister Yoshiaki Harada said on ...

    • Japan military joins historic PH war games 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Philippine Daily Inquirer, October 7, 2018, on page A13)
      Japan has its own maritime territorial dispute with Beijing in the East China Sea. The US military stressed that Saturday’s exercise was not aimed at China, which has also built artificial islands on disputed areas of the ...

    • Japan protest Chinese Navy ship's provocation 

      Reuters (Philippine Daily Inquirer, February 7, 2013, on page A21)
      A Chinese navy vessel aimed a type of radar normally used to aim weapons at a target at a Japanese navy ship in the East China Sea, prompting Japan to protest, Japan’s defense minister said on Tuesday, an action that could ...

    • Japan sends warships to South China Sea 

      Reuters (Philippine Daily Inquirer, October 11, 2020, on page A11)
      Japan’s Maritime Self-defense Force conducted anti-submarine drills in the South China Sea on Oct. 9, deploying three vessels including a helicopter aircraft carrier and a submarine, according to the Japanese defence ministry.

    • Japan slams China reclamations in disputed sea 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP); Associated Press (AP); Reuters (Philippine Daily Inquirer, July 22, 2015, on page A1-A4)
      Japan slammed China's bid to reclaim land in the South China Sea as a "coercive attempt" to force sweeping maritime claims, in a defense paper coinciding with Tokyo's bid for legislation to expand the Japanese military ...

    • Japan to send largest warship to disputed sea 

      Reuters (Philippine Daily Inquirer, March 15, 2017, on page A13)
      Japan plans to dispatch its largest warship on a three-month tour through the South China Sea beginning in May, three sources said, in its biggest show of naval force in the region since World War II. China claims almost ...

    • Japanese warship damaged in collision with Chinese boat 

      Reuters (Philippine Daily Inquirer, April 1, 2020, on page A9)
      A Japanese destroyer and a Chinese fishing boat collided in the East China Sea on Monday night and no one was injured, Japan’s defense minister said, but China said a fisherman was hurt and suggested the Japanese vessel ...

    • Japanese whalers return to port with first catch: 2 Minkes 

      (Philippine Daily Inquirer, July 3, 2019, on page A13)
      Japanese whalers returned to port Monday with their first catch after resuming commercial whaling for the first time in 31 years, achieving the long-cherished goal of traditionalists that is seen as largely a lost cause ...

    • Jellyfish sighting sours 'butanding' season 

      Ostoria, Rey Anthony (Philippine Daily Inquirer, May 13, 2019, on page A12)
      With just five days before its Butanding Festival, Donsol town in Sorsogon province had limited its whale shark interaction due to sightings of the deadly box jellyfish in local waters. Mayor Josephine Alcantara-Cruz, in ...

    • Joint naval patrols by PH, neighbors urged 

      Ramos, Marlon (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 6, 2018, on page A6)
      The Philippines should take a bold step in defending its sovereignty in the West Philippine Sea by encouraging neighboring states to conduct with it joint freedom of navigation patrols in the hotly contested South China ...

    • Joma backs PH legal battle vs China over sea dispute 

      Mallari, Delfin T. Jr. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, July 10, 2015, on page A1-A19)
      Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founder Jose Maria “Joma” Sison on Thursday declared his support to the legal struggle of the Philippine government against the “aggressive acts” of China in the West Philippine ...

    • Jun de Leon has a new life-and it's under the sea 

      Honasan, Ayla B. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, April 17, 2018, on page C1-C2)
      All it takes is a dive or two, De Leon says, and all is well in his world. The critter pictures on these pages, taken with a Canon Eos M3 (De Leon is a Canon ambassador), were from quiet dives with only his spotter, Raymond ...

    • Just 1 of 3 Boracay Businesss ready to re open 

      Salaverria, Leila; Burgos, Nestor P. Jr. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 21, 2018, on page A4)
      Only about a third of Boracay’s 440 hotels, resorts and inns are ready for the island’s reopening on Oct. 26, according to Interior Undersecretary Epimaco Densing, although this may still increase as establishments comply ...

    • Kalayaan mayor urges PH fishers to defy China. 

      Anda, Redempto; Quismundo, Tarra; Cabacungan, Gil (Philippine Daily Inquirer, January 11, 2014, on page A1-A9)
      The mayor of Kalayaan town, in the Spratlys, on Friday said he would encourage Filipino fishermen to ignore China’s new rules that require foreign fishermen to seek permission from Chinese regional authorities before ...

    • Kalikasan writ eyed against 'Manila Beach' 

      Subingsubing, Krixia (Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 7, 2020, on page A1-A2)
      The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) claims that the “white sand” being poured to create a beach on a stretch of Manila Bay’s rocky shore poses no harm to the bay’s ecosystem, but independent safety ...

    • 'Kapis' makes comeback in Iloilo waters 

      Labiste, Ma. Diosa (Philippine Daily Inquirer, October 12, 2002, on page A16)
      First, the good news: two valuable mollusks, the "kapis" (Placuna placenta) or windowpane oysters and "bay-ad" (Placuna sp.) have made a comeback near the shores of Iloilo province. And now the bad news: they may soon ...

    • 'Kapis' shells disappearing; gathering banned 

      Pagharion, Gerry T. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 29, 1999, on page 16)
      The gathering of world-class kapis shells and other similar species of shells is now banned in Capiz. The ban came after Mayor Antonio del Rosario signed into law an ordinance passed by the city council to save the famous ...

    • 'Kapis' shells disappearing; gathering banned 

      Pagharion, Gerry T. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 16, 1999, on page 16)
      The gathering of world-class kapis shells and other similar species of shells is now banned in Capiz. The ban came after Mayor Antonio del Rosario signed into law an ordinance passed by the city council to save the famous ...

    • Keeping world's smallest edible fish alive 

      Esacandor Jr., Juan (Philippine Daily Inquirer, May 28, 2017, on page A2-1)
      Buhi, Camarines Sur—The world’s smallest edible fish, locally called “sinarapan,” is slowly disappearing due to overfishing in Lake Buhi in Camarines Sur province, and the absence of a systematic and scientific way of ...