Japan eyes survey of disputed Senkaku Islands using satellite images

Japan plans to conduct a wildlife survey this year of the Senkakus, a group of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea under its control but also claimed by China, using satellite images, the government's top spokesman said Thursday.Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato said the Environment Ministry will use the images to update its vegetation maps of the islands and to observe rare short-tailed albatrosses that nest there, as part of a nationwide survey.The plan comes as China grows more assertive in Japan's territorial waters surrounding the islands, known as Diaoyu in China, sending c…READ FULL ARTICLE