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Sunday, October 21, 2012

US and Japan scrap naval drill in bid to ease islands tension with China

USS George Washington |Japan and the United States have called off a joint naval exercise planned for next month in a bid to avoid irritating China and escalating their ongoing territorial dispute in the East China Sea, Japanese media reported.

Citing a Japanese government source, the Tokyo-based Jiji Press said the decision to skip the drill on November 5-16 "reflects the decision of [the] prime minister's office".

The two navies had intended to rehearse the recapture of a remote island not unlike one of the disputed Diaoyu Islands.

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