Japan Coast Guard officers patrol on a rubber boat as Japanese activists hang their national flags on a small lighthouse and its perimeter on Uotsuri, the largest in a small archipelago known in Japan as the Senkaku Islands and in China as the Diaoyu Islands, Sunday, Aug. 19, 2012. They swam ashore and raised the flags early Sunday on the island at the center of an escalating territorial dispute with China. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE