The Japanese Defense Ministry has released more than 100 reports of suspicious ship movements in the past 12 months.
U.S. security treaty ally Japan recorded intensive maneuvers by the Russian and Chinese navies in its surrounding waters in the past year, with both neighbors frequently transiting near its territory as their ships sailed in and out of the expansive waters of the Pacific Ocean, government data shows.
Visible in the graphic, shown in red circles, are the Chinese aircraft carrier Shandong's deployments to the Philippine Sea last April, September, October and November, when Japanese crews photographed the flat-top—China's first domestically built carrier and its second overall—as helicopters and fighter jets took off from and landed on its deck with destroyers serving as escorts.
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