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Japan to join US in South China Sea patrols

By Emiko Jozuka, CNN

Updated 1157 GMT (1957 HKT) September 16, 2016

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Fishermen caught up in South China Sea tensions

FILE PHOTO -- The RC-135U Combat Sent, located at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb., provides strategic electronic reconnaissance information to the president, secretary of defense, Department of Defense leaders and theater commanders. (U.S. Air Force photo)

Chinese jet makes 'unsafe' intercept

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China talks tough over South China Sea

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Power struggle over island in South China Sea

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Aerospace technology to monitor South China Sea

High stakes surveillance over the South China Sea

Why it's so tense in the South China Sea

Philippine Navy's BRP Tarlac (LD-601), the first ever Strategic Sealift Vessel (SSV), arrives at the South Harbor in Manila on May 16, 2016.
The BRP Tarlac will serve as the Philippine Navy's floating command and control ship as the country modernises its fleet with tensions in the South China Sea -- through which one-third of the world's oil passes -- mounting in recent years.
/ AFP / NOEL CELIS (Photo credit should read NOEL CELIS/AFP/Getty Images)

Strong rebuke: Int'l tribunal rejects China's claim

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China wants peaceful resolution to territorial dispute

Beijing rejects South China Sea ruling

This handout photo taken on February 28, 2013 and received from the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on April 13, 2015 shows an aerial shot of a structure after a large-scale reclamation by China on the Chinese-held Johnson South Reef -- also claimed by the Philippines and Vietnam -- in what is part of the disputed Spratly chain. The Philippines released photographs on May 15, 2014 to back its claim that China was reclaiming land on the disputed reef, known as Mabini Reef in the Philippines, in the South China Sea in an apparent effort to build an airstrip. Beijing reaffirmed its right to build on disputed islands in the South China Sea on April 9, 2015 after new satellite imagery emerged of construction operations further south in the Spratly islands at Mischief Reef, turning tropical reefs into concrete artificial islands. The Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan all have overlapping claims in the area. AFP PHOTO / Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs

Court rejects China's South China Sea claim

US President Barack Obama delivers remarks at the National Convention Center in Hanoi on May 24, 2016.
Obama, currently on a visit to Vietnam, met with civil society leaders including some of the country's long-harassed critics on May 24. The visit is Obama's first to the country -- and the third by a sitting president since the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. / AFP / JIM WATSON (Photo credit should read JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)

President Obama: 'Sovereignty should be respected'

Fishermen caught up in South China Sea tensions

Chinese jet makes 'unsafe' intercept

China talks tough over South China Sea

Power struggle over island in South China Sea

Aerospace technology to monitor South China Sea

High stakes surveillance over the South China Sea

Why it's so tense in the South China Sea

Strong rebuke: Int'l tribunal rejects China's claim

China wants peaceful resolution to territorial dispute

Beijing rejects South China Sea ruling

Court rejects China's South China Sea claim

President Obama: 'Sovereignty should be respected'

Story highlights

Japan also plans to give aid to other South China Sea nations
There are competing claims to vast areas of sea by countries in the region

(CNN)Japan is planning on upping its activities in the South China Sea through joint training patrols with the United States and exercises with regional navies, Japanese Defense Minister Tomomi Inada said.

Japan would also be giving military aid to countries such as the Philippines and Vietnam as it increases its role in the contested waters of the South China Sea, Inada said Thursday at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a think tank in Washington, DC,

Inada also welcomed the US's plan to allocate 60% of its Navy and Air Force assets to the Asia Pacific region by 2020.

Territorial rows

Japan, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, the Philippines and Taiwan are among a group of nations engaged in territorial disputes with China.

Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) escort ship Kurama sails through smoke during a fleet review off Sagami Bay, Kanagawa prefecture, on October 18, 2015.

China wants peaceful resolution to territorial dispute

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