They had that name because you given them such name.
Read the article again:
I don't know what you're on about international rules, but the Chinese side is saying the Japanese navy has carried out actions that jeopardized the safety of its ships and aircraft. The Chinese will obviously have recorded evidence to back this up, and the Japanese would be pretty foolish to deny this.
Considering the pattern of dangerous Japanese harassment of Chinese naval drills, this incident is not all that surprising.
There was a forumite who started writing fiction about a China-Japan war that started fighter jet maneuvers. Seems like he should've used naval exercises instead.
Did PLAN make an official request for the data? No. Did you? No. If they had - they would get a press conference from Japanese MOD to show it. Did they deny using FC radar and all they wrote was 'observation' as I wrote - they did. Oh, they even wrote a whole paragraph about series of 'false accustations' in an offcial statement. Call that professional. Did they wrote anything those 'false accustations' based on data? Nope.
They didn't have to. They knew what happened there and there's no point in arguing with that. Japanese waited with press conference to process the data throughly and confirm that it won't be a bunch of 'false accustations' (and it took them three days from the press conference in Tokyo to put English translation of that on a gov site - I don't know what date had the original statement in Chinese). And no - Chinese Army isn't as transparent organisation as SDF. You can't deny that at least.
Fingers crossed. They're probably analyising photos and encoding videos for a week. About international law - I asked if you know what happened there and what are the regulations. In short, I wanted you to provide any kind of ground-based argument in discussion for once.
And what's wrong with that? Can't see any 'false statement' there in the light of current state of knowledge from mass-media (a protest from Chinese embassy in Tokyo and we don't even know what was in it, we only know what Chinese press wrote).
Did China admitted using fire control radar? Nope. Did Japan provide a channel for Chinese or anyone else to request the data? Nope. You won't be able to find an official statement from Japanese saying something like "anyone is welcome to make a request and we will provide the data". The bottom line is that Japan has shown absolutely nothing to backup their accusation of China.
The fact that Japan waited to process the data, then backed down from publishing those data only highlights the fact that Japan did not have a solid case to begin with. Japan's own data might even show the self defense force conducting all sorts of aggressive activities against Chinese task force. So, Japanese knew what happened, and what happened was that the accusations have no basis in facts.
Think of pictures with Chinese ships sailing in a single line. Now, think of Japanese ship cutting through the middle of that line from left to right, then from right to left. That's the sort of stunt Japan pulls, all the time. Once, Japan even interfered with a Chinese UNREP exercise by using a ship to "squeeze" Chinese replenishment ship. Forum members who are well-versed with searching in Chinese should look up that incident. In any case, Japanese ship was so aggressive that it ultimately required Chinese commander to send in another frigate to act as a barrier. Anything that requires active response from China is not just a simple monitoring of exercise.
This is more than that. This is Japan thinking they are entitled to do anything. Imagine what would happened if Chinese warships force their way into a US carrier task force despite repeated warnings. First, everyone would see that as a pure provocation plain and simple. Second, the guns on US ships would be blazing.