Shots fired from Korean side (Asahi Shimbun)

The Coast Guard patrol vessel was fired around Takeshima.
According to information received by the National Police Headquarters on the morning of the 13th, a Maritime Safety Agency patrol vessel, while patrolling near Takeshima in Shimane Prefecture on the morning of the 12th, came across three Korean fishing boats engaged in fishing under the protection of 7 or 8 South Korean police officers carrying automatic rifles. When a smaller boat was lowered from the vessel and an attempt was made to disembark on the islands, two of the Korean officers came rowing up with an interpreter and demanded that the Japanese party "withdraw from the islands as they are South Korean territory". As soon as the Japanese boat had been withdrawn and the Japanese officers had transferred to the patrol vessel, the Korean officers suddenly fired several tens of shots, two of which hit the vessel, but no one was harmed.