China demanded again on Thursday that Japan free a group Chinese activists arrested for landing on a disputed island in the East China Sea, Reuters reports.
Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Zhijun in a telephone call with a Japanese Foreign Ministry official "again made solemn representations and protests regarding Japan's illegal detention of Chinese nationals and their vessel", the foreign ministry said in a statement.
Zhang also "urged that Japan immediately and unconditionally release the people and the vessel", the statement added.
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