Tensions may rise over islands

Tensions may erupt again as a group of conservative Japanese politicians and political activists held a fishing campaign on Sunday in waters near the Diaoyu Islands to demonstrate "Japan's sovereignty", according to Japan's Asia News Agency.

A right-wing group called "Come on, Japan!" organized the campaign, according to the report. Six members of parliament and more than 40 activists from the group participated.

Yaeyama Fisheries Association of Okinawa Prefecture provided help and participants used 16 fishing boats of 5 to 10 tons each. "Setting off for a fishery study. I will arrive at 'the Senkaku Islands' early on Sunday morning. It is cloudy with waves rising," Tsutomu Takamura, 38, a member of the Democratic Party of Japan who participated wrote in his blog before departing for the campaign.