BEIJING: Japan said on Monday that a Chinese naval submarine spotted in waters off flashpoint islands in the East China Sea was one of its new type of nuclear-powered attack vessels.

Tokyo’s statement comes on the same day that China announced three of its “Coast Guard vessels conducted a patrol in territorial waters off the Diaoyu Islands,” Beijing’s name for the contested isles called Senkaku in Japan.

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