CHINA-JAPAN: EEZ

The Japan Times on February 28, 2017, quoted the Japan Coast Guard as stating that China had conducted a total of 63 seabed surveys inside Japan’s EEZ in the East China Sea and elsewhere without consent over the five years from 2012 to 2016.China has made an application to the U.N. Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS, see below) for extending its continental shelf to areas inside Japan’s EEZ. China apparently has been increasing its research activities aiming to expand its maritime interests. China made an application to the CLCS in 2012 for the extension of its continental shelf to the Okinawa Trough, which is located inside Japan’s EEZ, and started conducting surveys repeatedly around the Senkaku Islands in Ishigaki, Okinawa Prefecture, without the consent of the Japanese government. Over the past five years, a total of 84 surveys were conducted inside Japan’s EEZ without consent, and China accounted for 80 percent of the total cases. Recently, China has been increasing research activities in Japan’s EEZ, doing 23 surveys in 2015 and 11 in 2016 without Japan’s consent.







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