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China apologizes for sub intrusion

A same model of the submarine that entered Japan's territorial waters off Okinawa.

China extended an apology Nov. 16 to Tokyo after admitting that one of its nuclear-powered submarines intruded into Japan's territorial waters off Okinawa on Nov. 10, an incident it laid to "technical errors," Japanese officials said.

Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wu Dawei met Nov. 16 with Japanese Ambassador Koreshige Anami in Beijing and apologized for the sub intrusion, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda said in Tokyo.

According to Hosoda, the vice minister did not give details of the "technical errors" that the minister said took place during "the process of normal training."

The vice minister called the incident "regrettable," a remark Tokyo interprets as an apology, Hosoda said.

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