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Monday, September 15, 2008

Unidentified submarine enters Japanese waters

An unidentified foreign submarine temporarily entered Japanese territorial waters in the Bungo Strait between Shikoku and Kyushu on Sunday morning, the Defense Ministry said.

According to the ministry, the captain and officers aboard the Maritime Self-Defense Force Aegis-equipped destroyer Atago spotted what appeared to be submarine periscope at 6:56 a.m., about one kilometer south of the strait, seven kilometers inside the maritime territorial boundary off Ashizurimisaki cape in Kochi Prefecture.

At 7 a.m., the Atago, which was on a training mission at the time of the incident, used its sonar to search for the suspicious object and concluded after about 30 minutes that it likely was a submarine.

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