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The Senkaku Islands dispute, or Diaoyu Islands dispute, is a territorial dispute over a group of uninhabited islands known as the Senkaku Islands in Japan, the Diaoyu Islands in China, [1] and Tiaoyutai Islands in Taiwan. [2]
The main cause of the demonstrations was the escalation of the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands dispute between China and Japan around the time of the anniversary of the Mukden Incident of 1931, which was the de facto catalyst to the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, culminating in a humiliating Chinese defeat and a decisive Japanese victory vis-à-vis ...
The 2010 Senkaku boat collision incident (or the Minjinyu 5179 incident) occurred on the morning of September 7, 2010, when a Chinese trawler (Minjinyu 5179) operating in disputed waters collided with Japanese Coast Guard (JCG) patrol boats near the Senkaku Islands.
"The Senkaku are our sovereign territory and we need to go ashore for research." It was the first such inspection trip to the area involving a member of Japan's parliament since 2013, NHK reported.
A group of disputed islands, known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, is seen in the East China Sea on September 2012. - Kyodo/Reuters
China said it drove away several Japanese vessels that "illegally" entered territorial waters on Monday around the islands, which it calls Diaoyu, and it urged Japan to stop all "illegal ...
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 ...
It warned China’s vessels against further approaching the islands, called the Senkaku in Japanese, while Beijing calls them the Diaoyu. China's Coast Guard on Tuesday acknowledged that it was ...