Traces of Japanese activity remain on Senkaku Islands

Aboard a rubber dinghy, some members of the Tokyo metropolitan government's inspection team approach a former landing place on Uotsurishima islet, of the Senkaku Islands, on Sept. 2. (Soichiro Yamamoto)The inspection team from the Tokyo metropolitan government survey a cave on Uotsurishima islet on Sept. 2 (Pool)Tokyo inspectors study the transparency of the waters surrounding the Senkaku Islands on Sept. 2. (Pool)Tokyo inspectors approach Minami-Kojima, one of the five islets of the Senkaku Islands, aboard a small boat on Sept. 2. (Soichiro Yamamoto)Tokyo inspectors on a rubber dinghy sail to Uotsurishima on Sept. 2. (Soichiro Yamamoto)