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Japanese Destroyers Fire on Unidentified ShipsDate Posted: 1999-03-26 The two unidentified vessels, found inside Japanese territorial waters about 190 miles northwest of Tokyo, refused requests by the civilian Maritime Safety Agency to heave to. In a tense climax to the 12-hour chase, the Japanese government decided to send destroyers - the first such action using military ships since the end of World War II - to intercept the vessels. According to reports, the destroyers fired rounds from small-caliber machine guns into the water, but the vessels, supposedly equipped with sophisticated antennas and lacking any form of identification, continued to speed away in a northerly direction. An Associated Press report said the antennas indicate the ships "may have been in Japanese waters for spying operations." |
   
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