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Japanese nationals in fishing boats have, for the second time in two months, slipped past the Japanese

Coast Guard and landed on the island of Uotsuri, belonging to the Senkaku island group. Though Japan currently controls the islands, China believes the islands (Called the Diaoyu islands in China) to belong to it, and there have been large scale protests in several Chinese cities of Japanese control of the islands. The pictures of the nationals were posted to the Internet. The Japanese Coast Guard has removed the nationals from the island. The island chain may be the site of oil reserves.

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