1.   Both had firefights with Japanese patrols.

2.   During a surface passage through the Lombok Strait in Indonesia, Martin writes, a Japanese patrol boat attacked the submarine.

3.   He huddled in caves as Japanese patrols nosed past his hiding places.

4.   Japanese patrol boats, warships and aircraft intercepted two suspicious boats with false markings on Tuesday and later fired warning shots in an attempt to force them to stop.

5.   Japanese coastal patrols are increasingly spotting small, rusty boats slipping into harbor at night carrying several dozen Chinese migrants packed into a tiny cabin.

6.   A Japanese patrol boat picked up the remaining one, and the coast guard was consulting with immigration officials about how to return him home, the official said.

7.   A Japanese patrol boat picked up the remaining one.

8.   A Japanese patrol cutter stopped the trawler in the Japanese economic zone on Friday, the Russian agency said.

9.   A quartet of rubber dinghies with outboard motors will be used to evade Japanese patrols and land on the islands, he said.

10.   At one point, a Japanese patrol plane dropped smoke canisters near the protest ships as a warning not to approach the islands.