Japan objects as China trawler flees with inspectors aboard

TOKYO (AP) — Japan has protested to Beijing after a Chinese trawler suspected of poaching off Japan’s southern coast sailed away with Japanese inspectors on board.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Thursday that the incident occurred on Nov. 5 in Japan’s exclusive economic zone off Kagoshima. He said Japan complained to China over the “vicious” case.
Fisheries officials said the trawler, in the Japanese EEZ when spotted, kept sailing after about 10 Japanes