Much more worrying for Tokyo is China's push to claim disputed East China Sea islands, our correspondent adds.
In addition to North Korea's missile program, he cited China's intrusions into territorial waters around contested East China Sea islands.
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China Daily and Southern Metropolis Daily highlight how Fu Ying blamed Japan for escalating an East China Sea islands dispute.
Since last summer, Japan has been embroiled in a rancorous dispute with China over a group of small East China Sea islands.
Since last summer, Japan has been embroiled in a bitter dispute with China over a group of small East China Sea islands.
Experts in China hit out at Japanese media claims challenging Beijing's denial over a radar lock incident near disputed East China Sea islands.
Turning to Japan, Xinhua says a Chinese marine surveillance ship patrolled waters near disputed East China Sea islands for a second day in a row on Monday.
Another irritant to regional ties arose Tuesday morning when eight Chinese patrol ships sailed within the territorial waters around the East China Sea islands, said a Japanese Coast Guard official.
On Wednesday, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei told journalists that China has "indisputable sovereignty over the South China Sea islands and adjacent waters, which has abundant historical and legal grounds".
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The newspaper also says Japan is "more likely to use force than respect laws" after it scrambled fighter jets yesterday to ward off a Chinese government plane flying towards disputed East China Sea islands.
Most editorials remained focused on the ongoing China-Japan row over the disputed East China Sea islands as US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta met his Chinese counterpart Liang Guanglie in Beijing on Tuesday after a visit to Tokyo.
The State Oceanic Administration accuses Japan's Weekly Post of "sheer nonsense and malicious speculation" following its expose on a Chinese government ship allegedly aiming a machine gun at a Japanese fishing boat near disputed East China Sea islands on 18 February, People's Daily reports.
If ye could have made a wish and shrunk to a Tom Thumb ye could have climbed aboard and put to sea for treasure islands.
Relations with Vietnam have also worsened in recent years as China has asserted a historic claim to much of the South China Sea, including islands for which the two countries have previously fought for control.
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Within a year, the Sands Macao had recouped its construction costs, of two hundred and sixty-five million dollars, and Adelson embarked on an idea that he described as coming to him in a dream: to replicate the Las Vegas Strip on a stretch of open sea between two islands in Macau.
One of those involves an increasingly shrill argument with the Philippines about who has sovereignty over the Scarborough Shoal, a group of rocks in the South China Sea called the Huangyan Islands by China.
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For decades, the islands on the Sea of Marmara outside Istanbul have been home to Turkey's most dangerous exiles and prisoners.
It remains a sea of supposition dotted with islands of fact.
China warned Washington this week not to get involved in South China Sea territorial disputes, loaded, of course, with oil and gas and have set China against the Philippines and Japan who both claim rights to the tiny energy rich islands in the sea.
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Sea otter populations off the Aleutian Islands have dropped by 80-90 percent since the 1970s.
Some of the atolls and islands are anything from sea level to a maximum of 4ft above water.
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The Netherlands Antilles is a group of five islands in the Caribbean Sea.
North-east of the South China Sea lies a small crop of islands that Japan and China are squabbling over.
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The Special Areas of Conservation include the sea and seabed surrounding the Maidens Islands off Larne and those adjacent to the Portrush Skerries and Giant's Causeway.
Hopes that border quarrels in the region might be settled by arbitration were raised when Eritrea and Yemen accepted the ruling of an international court in The Hague over the disputed Hanish islands in the Red Sea.
As a public service, it is obliged to deliver letters and packages to every corner of Germany, from islands in the Baltic Sea to the Bavarian Alps (its publicists peddle photographs of loyal employees punting down rivers to reach obscure addresses).
Weaving its way through a maze of broccoli-coloured islands in waters where Orca whales can be spotted during the summer months, the journey crosses the invisible frontier between the urban frenzy of Seattle and the soporific rhythms of the Puget Sound, the inland sea in which the San Juan Islands are located .
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