Tokyo: Japan's top government spokesman said yesterday a Chinese aircraft carrier's voyage in the Pacific shows China's expanding military capability and Japan was closely monitoring it.
Japan would take all steps for warning and surveillance activity in the area, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said yesterday.
China says its first aircraft carrier is carrying out routine exercises in the Western Pacific.
Japan said late on Sunday it had spotted six Chinese naval vessels including the Liaoning travelling through the passage between Miyako and Okinawa and into the Pacific.
