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The islands are referred to as the Senkaku Islands (尖 閣 諸 島, Senkaku-shotō, variants: 尖閣群島 Senkaku-guntō [18] and 尖閣列島 Senkaku-rettō [19]) in Japanese. In mainland China, they are known as the Diaoyu Islands (Chinese: 钓鱼 岛; pinyin: Diàoyúdǎo) or more fully "Diaoyu Dao and its affiliated islands" (Chinese: 钓鱼 岛 及 其 附属 岛屿; pinyin ...
Partial image of map showing Senkaku Islands in World Atlas published in China in 1960. A world atlas published in November 1958, by the Map Publishing Company of Beijing, treats the Senkaku Islands as a Japanese territory and described them in Japanese name Senkaku Guntō (Senkaku Islands) and Uotsuri-Jima, [35]
The Okinawa Reversion Agreement (Japanese: 沖縄返還協定, Hepburn: Okinawa henkan kyōtei) was an agreement between the United States and Japan in which the United States agreed to relinquish in favor of Japan all rights and interests under Article III of the Treaty of San Francisco, which had been obtained as a result of the Pacific War, and thus return Okinawa Prefecture to Japanese ...
It includes Ishigaki island and the Senkaku Islands territory. [1] The city is the political, cultural, and economic center of the Yaeyama Islands. [2] New Ishigaki Airport serves the city. As of December 2012, the city has an estimated population of 48,816 and a population density of 213 persons per km 2. The total area is 229.00 km 2. [3]
Both Chinese claims are based on knowledge of and control over the islands prior to their Japanese discovery in 1884 and their acquisition by Japan during the First Sino-Japanese War, which ultimately resulted in the ceding of nearby Formosa and surrounding islands to Japan in the Treaty of Shimonoseki; the Chinese claims include the Senkaku ...
[4] [5] The Paracel Islands, currently occupied by China, are contested by Taiwan and Vietnam. The Spratly Islands are claimed by all three, where Vietnam occupies the greatest number of features and Taiwan occupies the largest, Taiping Island. Brunei, Malaysia, and the Philippines also claim some of the features in the island chain. [6]
Senkaku Islands (尖閣列島), disputed territory named "Diaoyu" or "Diaoyutai Islands" in Mandarin Chinese, also known as "Pinnacle Islands", administered by Japan; Senkaku (priest) (仙覚, 1203 – c. 1273), a Japanese Buddhist priest; Yasui Senkaku (安井仙角, 1700–1737), the head of the Yasui school of Go, which was established in ...
The Senkaku Islands are claimed by Japan, the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China. [8] [9] In 2008 a sports fishing boat from Taiwan, Lien Ho, was rammed and sunk by JCG patrol ships which led to an official apology and monetary compensation of NT$10 million paid by Japan. [10]