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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 dispute over the Kuril Islands was one of the main reasons that the Soviets did not sign the Treaty of San Francisco, and the state of war between the two nations persisted until the Soviet–Japanese Joint Declaration of 1956, in which Japan agreed to renounce their claims to Iturup and Kunashir in return for the Soviets returning Shikotan ...
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]
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 said a Chinese Y-9 reconnaissance plane had flown over the Danjo islands, west of the island of Kyushu, for around two minutes. ... is the dispute over the Senkaku Islands (referred to as ...
The islands are the focus of a territorial dispute between Japan and China and between Japan and Taiwan. [9] China claims the discovery and ownership of the islands from the 14th century, while Japan maintained ownership of the islands from 1895 until its surrender at the end of World War II.
The Pacific Islands Leaders Meeting, or PALM, launched under a Japanese initiative in 1997, has become Japan’s key diplomatic tool to deter China’s security and economic influence in the ...
The Senkaku Islands (Diaoyu Islands) are offshore islands near Taiwan, and have been a subject of territorial dispute between the governments of China, Taiwan and Japan. [2] Prior to the demonstrations, there were many cases of protests over the sovereignty of the islands, most notably those in China in 2005.