China ships enter Japan waters near Senkakus, day before key anniv.

Three Chinese coast guard vessels entered Japan's territorial waters near the Senkaku Islands on Wednesday and stayed for more than eight hours, a day before the 50th anniversary of the normalization of the countries' diplomatic ties.The Japan Coast Guard said the intrusion, the first since Sept. 8, off the uninhabited islets claimed by China occurred around 3:15 a.m. after the ships tracked three Japanese fishing boats.Japanese patrol vessels ordered the Chinese ships to immediately exit the waters near the Senkakus, long a source of tension between the countries, with neither side in the …READ FULL ARTICLE