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The islands were first incorporated by the Empire of Japan in 1905 during the Russo-Japanese War, claiming that the land was terra nullius; Japanese victory in the war resulted in the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1905, making the Korean Empire a protectorate of Japan, and ultimately the annexation of Korea five years later with the Japan–Korea ...
The Kuril Islands dispute, known as the Northern Territories dispute in Japan, is a territorial dispute between Japan and Russia over the ownership of the four southernmost Kuril Islands. The Kuril Islands are a chain of islands that stretch between the Japanese island of Hokkaido at their southern end and the Russian Kamchatka Peninsula at ...
A number of territories occupied by the United States after 1945 were returned to Japan, but there are still a number of disputed territories between Japan and Russia (the Kuril Islands dispute), South Korea and North Korea (the Liancourt Rocks dispute), the People's Republic of China and Taiwan (the Senkaku Islands dispute).
The dispute continues to this day, as there are about 31,000 acres (13,000 ha) of disputed territory administered by Oregon, and about 20,000 acres (8,100 ha) administered by California. [114] The border should follow the 42nd parallel straight west from the 120th meridian west to the Pacific.
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]
In many contexts in Japan (government, media markets, sports, regional business or trade union confederations), regions are used that deviate from the above-mentioned common geographical 8-region division that is sometimes referred to as "the" regions of Japan in the English Wikipedia and some other English-language publications. Examples of ...
The Senkaku Islands are administered by Japan but disputed by China. This excludes the disputed Northern Territories (Kuril Islands) and Liancourt Rocks. In total, as of 2021, Japan's territory is 377,973.89 km 2 (145,936.53 sq mi), of which 364,546.41 km 2 (140,752.16 sq mi) is land and 13,430 km 2 (5,190 sq mi) is water. [2]
Internal territorial disputes of Japan (2 P) L. Liancourt Rocks (10 P, 1 F) S. Separatism in Japan (1 C, 3 P) Southern Kuriles (3 C, 11 P)