1010 Chapter 7
Date(s): September 9, 2005 to November 11, 2005
Participants: 710 China/740 Japan
Outcome (and Settlement): Unclear (None)
Fatalities: None
Narrative: China sent five warships to the East China Sea in September 2005.
Another Chinese ship violated Japanese waters near there in November. Both claim
the Chunxiao gas fields in the East China Sea.
MID#4478
Dispute Number: 4478
Date(s): April 28, 2007 to May 27, 2007
Participants: 710 China/713 Taiwan, 740 Japan
Outcome (and Settlement): Unclear (None)
Fatalities: None
Narrative: Chinese destroyers sailed through Japanese territorial waters and along the
eastern coast of Taiwan as a show of naval strength.
MID#4489
Dispute Number: 4489
Date(s): April 21, 2010
Participants: 710 China/740 Japan
Outcome (and Settlement): Unclear (None)
Fatalities: None
Narrative: A Chinese naval helicopter buzzed a Japanese destroyer near Okinawa.
MID#4491
Dispute Number: 4491
Date(s): September 7, 2010 to November 28, 2010
Participants: 740 Japan/710 China
Outcome (and Settlement): Unclear (None)
Fatalities: None
Narrative: This dispute describes several incidents between Japan and China in the
waters near the disputed Senkaku Islands. Most of the incidents were naval shows of
force, but Japan also seized a Chinese fishing vessel and its captain who rammed a
Japanese patrol.