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Japan has lodged a stern protest with China for launching a Japanese-language website in support of its claim to the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters on Wednesday that the Japanese government filed a strong protest with the Chinese Foreign Ministry via the Japanese embassy in Beijing.

He said Japan is demanding that China take down the site immediately.

Suga said history and international law make it clear the islands are an inherent part of Japanese territory. He said Japan effectively controls them.

He said China's claim distorts the facts and is therefore unacceptable to the Japanese government.

Japan made a similar protest when a Chinese-language website making the same claim to the islands was launched last December.

Earlier in the day, the Xinhua news agency reported that China's State Oceanic Administration had set up Japanese- and English-language versions of the original Chinese website. The website is titled "Diaoyu," which is China's name for the Senkaku Islands.