FILE PHOTO: Fourteen fishing vessels, part of a fleet that left Hainan on July 11, 2012, catch fish and collect rare corals nine kilometers east of Pag-asa Island in the West Philippine Sea. PHOTO FROM THE WESTERN COMMAND MANILA, Philippines — The embassies of Japan and China in the Philippines have figured in a heated exchange on social media concerning Beijing's alleged harvesting of corals in the West Philippine Sea's Rozul Reef. On Sunday, Japan's Ambassador to the Philippines Koshikawa Kazuhiko sounded alarm over China's alleged act on X (formerly Twitter).

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