TOKYO: Japan is to stage amphibious landing drills in the East China Sea, coinciding with wargames Russia and China are holding near islands at the center of a Tokyo-Beijing territorial row.

About 1,330 personnel, four naval vessels and aircraft from Japan’s three services will be involved in exercises in the Amami group of islands and in waters east of Okinawa, the defense ministry said in a press release, adding they were intended to bolster Japan’s ability to “defend islands”.

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