Tokyo, Dhu-AlQa'dah 3, 1437, Aug 6, 2016, SPA -- Japan lodged a protest with Beijing on Saturday after about 230 Chinese vessels were spotted in waters near a group of disputed islets in the East China Sea, the Japanese government said. More than 200 fishing boats, as well as six Chinese coast guard ships, were sailing in a contiguous zone near the Japanese-administered Senkaku Islands, Tokyo said. "This is a unilateral act that raises tensions. It is unacceptable to us," Kenji Kanasugi, a Japanese foreign ministry official, told the Chinese Embassy in Japan. Japan summoned the Chinese ambassador to Japan, Cheng Yonghua, to lodge a protest late Friday after a total of eight Chinese fishing vessels and coast guard ships entered what Tokyo regards as its territorial waters near the Senkakus, dpa reported. --SPA 14:17 LOCAL TIME 11:17 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w