Japan seizes Chinese fishing boat off Nagasaki, arrests skipper

Japanese authorities seized a Chinese fishing boat and arrested its skipper, authorities said on Friday, in a move likely to further heighten tensions with Beijing. In November, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi enraged mainland China by suggesting that Japan would intervene militarily if Beijing sought to take Taiwan by force. “The vessel’s captain was ordered to stop for an inspection by a fisheries inspector, but the vessel failed to comply and fled,” Japan’s fisheries agency said. “Consequently,...

By Agence France-Presse