financial wire with Tokyo bureau; first English-language outlet to tie the Yonaguni coast guard move to the preceding bomber overflights

Reports Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary declaring China's EEZ activity near Yonaguni 'unacceptable', connects the coast guard presence to days-earlier scrambles of Japanese jets against Chinese and Russian bombers, and notes that the patrols coincide with Japan-Philippines maritime delimitation talks that cut across Beijing's claimed zone.

“Japan says China Coast Guard activity in the EEZ south of Yonaguni Island and its territorial claims there are unacceptable.”