Defiant Japanese head for islands

18 August 2012 Last updated at 12:11 ET


One of the men in the flotilla displayed a Japanese flag

Japanese politicians have set sail for a group of disputed islands, in the teeth of protests by China which claims them for its own.
A flotilla of some 20 Japanese boats set out for the Senkaku islands, called Diaoyu in China, and is expected to anchor off them early on Sunday.
The politicians plan to commemorate Japanese dead in World War II, when Japan occupied eastern China.
But Japan's government has denied them permission to land on the islands.
China says the event will undermine its "territorial

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