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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] Aside from a 1945 to 1972 period of administration by the United States as part of the Ryukyu Islands, the archipelago ...
The Liancourt Rocks, known as Takeshima in Japanese and Dokdo or Tokto in Korean, are a group of two small islets and rocks in the Sea of Japan. 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 ...
Disputed islands. The Senkaku Islands[a], also known as the Pinnacle Islands or the Diaoyu Islands[b] in China and as the Tiaoyutai Islands[c] in Taiwan, are a group of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea, administered by Japan. The islands are located northeast of Taiwan, east of China, west of Okinawa Island, and north of the ...
Japan and China have repeatedly faced off around the Japan-administered islands. China also has escalating run-ins with the Philippine navy in disputed areas of the South China Sea, where Beijing ...
Japan controls the islands and calls them the Senkaku. Chinese and Japanese coast guard ships have faced off in waters around disputed islands in the East China Sea, both countries said on Tuesday
In Ishigaki, Japan coast guards protect fishing boats in the disputed waters around the Japanese-controlled islands in the East China Sea that Tokyo calls Senkaku.
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. [1][2][3] There were several JCG boats involved, including Yonakuni and Mizuki ...
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 ...