ANSWER: Only 1
Explanation:
- Japan is planning to deploy about 500 ground troops on a southern island as territorial disputes with China continue to escalate.
- Ishigaki has jurisdiction over the Japanese-controlled Senkaku islands, which China also claims and calls the Diaoyu islands.
- Japan has stepped up defence readiness with the Chinese military build-up and its aggressive patrols near the disputed islands.
- Beijing insists it has sovereign rights to nearly all of the East China Sea and the South China Sea, a strategic waterway through which about one-third of all the world's traded oil passes.
- The disputed waters - also claimed in part or in whole by Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Brunei.
