Also on Monday, three Chinese government ships ordered Japanese patrol ships to leave "Chinese territorial waters" near the disputed islands, Global Times reports.
Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Chikao Kawai, the highest-ranking foreign ministry bureaucrat, summoned Chinese ambassador Cheng Yunghua to complain about the intrusion of patrol ships.
The exercise will be conducted in the southern port city of Busan and will include patrol ships and helicopters from Korean maritime police and the Japan Coast Guard.
Japan's territorial dispute with China has also escalated on a broader front, with China recently sending its largest fleet of paramilitary patrol ships near to disputed islets that Japan controls.
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.
Japan also appears to be looking to reinforce its capabilities in the area - public broadcaster NHK reported on Monday that two more patrol ships will be deployed to the area later in the year.
The Americans have their own ships on patrol, as do the Chinese, the Indians, Russians and several other countries.
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Up to 10 EU naval ships are currently on patrol off the Horn of Africa.
"There aren't enough ships on the planet to patrol the entire Indian Ocean, " she said, adding that she thought it would be more difficult to eradicate Somali piracy than to bring peace to Afghanistan.
On Thursday China said that it granted its border patrol police the power to board and search ships in the area.
Elsewhere in the South China Sea, Beijing's patrol vessels regularly face off with Vietnamese and Philippine ships over fishing rights and natural resources exploration.
At present, warships from a number of countries patrol an international maritime corridor, escorting some merchant ships and responding to distress calls in the area.
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In addition, seven Royal Fleet Auxiliary ships and four support aircraft, consisting of Nimrod maritime patrol and Hercules transport planes will be part of the force.
It is borrowing ships from the navy to cover for the remodelled 123-foot patrol boats that don't float.
China recently moved maritime patrol boats into waters near the Senkakus, prompting calls by Japanese coast guard ships for the vessels to leave.
The ships, which left Hainan province on 19 March, "conducted patrol and training missions" over eight days, it added.
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