Japan has been closely monitoring Russian and China naval vessels this week as they navigated strategic East Asian waterways. A map created by Newsweek using data released Thursday by the Japan Joint Staff illustrates the movements of these ships along the belt of islands and archipelagoes known as the "First Island Chain." The China warships are shown to have transited the narrow strip of water between Taiwan's east coast from nearby Japan islands, while the Russian vessel traversed the Tsushima Strait separating Japan from the Korean Peninsula.
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