{"id":76357,"date":"2026-02-13T13:19:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T04:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/13\/japan-seizes-chinese-fishing-boat"},"modified":"2026-02-13T13:19:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T04:19:57","slug":"japan-seizes-chinese-fishing-boat-inside-its-economic-waters-amid-rift-with-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76357","title":{"rendered":"Japan seizes Chinese fishing boat inside its economic waters amid rift with Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u2019s fisheries agency said the vessel failed to comply with an order to stop. The incident comes weeks after a row between China and Japan over Taiwan<\/p>\n<p>Authorities in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> have seized a Chinese fishing boat and arrested its captain in a move that is likely to inflame an ongoing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/17\/china-and-japan-are-in-a-war-of-words-over-taiwan-what-happens-next\">diplomatic row<\/a> between Tokyo and Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>The seizure, which occurred on Thursday about 170km from the south-western port city of Nagasaki, came after the skipper refused an order to stop for an onboard inspection, according to media reports.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/13\/japan-seizes-chinese-fishing-boat\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u2019s fisheries agency said the vessel failed to comply with an order to stop. The incident comes weeks after a row between China and Japan over TaiwanAuthorities in Japan have seized a Chinese fishing boat and arrested its captain in a move that is &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,65,1019,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-environment","category-fishing","category-japan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76357"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76365,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76357\/revisions\/76365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}