{"id":422916,"date":"2026-02-13T03:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T03:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/422916\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T03:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T03:37:08","slug":"japan-says-it-seized-chinese-vessel-amid-tensions-with-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/422916\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan says it seized Chinese vessel amid tensions with Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"

There were 11 people aboard, including the captain who is a 47-year-old Chinese national, the fisheries agency said. <\/p>\n

Authorities and Japanese media have described the seized vessel as a “tiger net fishing boat” with a high capacity.<\/p>\n

“We will continue to take resolute action in our enforcement activities to prevent and deter illegal fishing operations by foreign vessels,” Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara said on Friday.<\/p>\n

Thursday’s incident comes amid strained relations after Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi enraged China in November<\/a> by suggesting Tokyo would intervene militarily if Beijing sought to take Taiwan by force.<\/p>\n

China has long insisted that Taiwan, occupied for decades by Japan until 1945, is its territory<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It has not ruled out using force to achieve what it calls “reunification”.<\/p>\n

In response to Takaichi’s remarks, which China’s foreign ministry described as “egregious”, Beijing summoned Tokyo’s ambassador and warned its citizens to reconsider travel and study in Japan.<\/p>\n

That led to a sharp drop in visits to Japan by Chinese tourists, and a subsequent hit to Japanese stocks related to tourism and retail.<\/p>\n

As the diplomatic spat deepened during the end of 2025, Beijing repeatedly demanded that Takaichi retract her comments, and its foreign ministry warned Japan to “stop playing with fire”.<\/p>\n

Japanese artists touring China have also had shows cancelled and releases of popular Japanese movies have been postponed.<\/p>\n

Japan’s last two pandas were even returned to China<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There were 11 people aboard, including the captain who is a 47-year-old Chinese national, the fisheries agency said.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-422916","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}