HONG KONG (Reuters) - A trawler carrying 26 activists left Hong Kong on Sunday bound for a cluster of disputed Japan-held islands in the East China Sea.
Gathering on the deck before setting off, the protesters from Hong Kong, the U.S. and Canada and elsewhere, waved colourful banners and shouted slogans into loudhailers denouncing Japan's wartime aggression and claiming Chinese sovereignty over the islands.
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