Bishop backs Japan as it sends warship into troubled waters

By David Wroe, Kirsty Needham
Updated March 15 2017 - 4:43pm, first published 4:35pm

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has backed "the right of all nations" to sail through international waters after Japan reportedly decided to send its biggest naval warship through the politically-sensitive South China Sea.

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