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Japan planting corals to bolster ocean claims

China Daily | Updated: 2008-04-09 07:30

Japan is mounting a $7 million coral transplanting operation in the East China Sea aimed at bolstering its side of a territorial dispute with China - and cementing Tokyo's right to exploit a wide expanse of ocean.

Over the next year, scientists will plant over 50,000 fast-growing Acropora coral fragments on Okinotorishima, two uninhabited rocky outcroppings about 1,700 km southwest of Tokyo, project officials say.

The aim is to protect the islets - now circled by concrete seawalls - from further erosion and maintain Japan's claim that they are bona fide islands that can be used to map its exclusive economic zone in the East China Sea.

Japan planting corals to bolster ocean claims

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