‘China’s simply wrong’: the fisherman, 72, staking Japan’s claim to the Diaoyu Islands

• Hitoshi Nakama, an Okinawan councillor-turned-fisherman, says he won’t be intimidated, however many times the Chinese coastguard chases him away
• Visiting the disputed and uninhabited islands – which Japan calls the Senkakus – was the first thing he did when elected in 1995. He has been returning to them ever since