. >> that was satoru miyamoto with the university. >>> japan's foreign minister has criticized comments by china's top judge about jurisdiction over the senkaku islands. japan controls the islands in the east china sea, china and taiwan claim them. the chief justice of the supreme people's court spoke sunday at the national people's congress. he discussed a settlement reached at a chinese court over an incident in 2014. it involved a coision between a chinese fishing boat and a panama-registered freighter near the senkaku islands. he said the case demonstrated china's jurisdiction over the region. >> translator: the accident took place beyond the territorial waters of the senkaku islands. it was not even in the contiguous zone just outside japan's territorial waters. >> kishida said under international law, the accident occurred in a place unrelated to the senkakus. he noted that, legally and historically, the islands are an inherent part of japan's territory. kishida said china's independent claim to the islands is very regrettable. he said japan launched a protest on monday with the c