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Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara landed Friday on the remote Okinotorishima Island, Japan’s southernmost territory in the Pacific Ocean, at the center of another dispute with China. China has claimed the right to drill for oil and other resources in the waters surrounding Okinotorishima, a par of islets in the Pacific Ocean, arguing that the rocky outcroppings cannot be called an island around which a country can claim an exclusive economic zone. Ishihara stressed Japan’s view that Okinotorishima is an island. Ishihara has been trying to start economic activity on the islet to back Japan’s claim.