Japan asks fishermen to avoid disputed islands | REUTERS

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Some Japanese officials have been discreetly urging fisherman and local politician Hitoshi Nakama, and his peers, to steer clear of the remote island outcrops known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China to avoid escalating a diplomatic clash with Beijing, according to Nakama and three other people with knowledge of the requests.

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