Tokyo: Two Chinese ships have illegally entered the Japanese territorial waters near the disputed Senkaku Islands on Saturday. Japanese Coast Guard Service urged violators to leave the country's territorial waters.

Citing NHK broadcaster, Sputnik reported that the incident occurred at 16:00 pm (07:00 GMT), with the Japanese Coast Guard Service urging violators to leave the country's territorial waters. This is despite Japanese Defence Minister Nobuo Kishi last week conveying to his Beijing counterpart Wei Fenghe about Tokyo's strong concerns over Beijing's regular attempts to unilaterally change the status quo by coercion.

This is not the first case of illegally entering the country's territorial waters. This year, Japan has reported 24 cases of Chinese ships' violation of its sea border, Sputnik said. China has been increasing its maritime activities in both the South China Sea and East China. In October, two Chinese vessels stayed in the disputed waters for about 50 hours.

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