Oppression Of The Senkaku Islands In Japan

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For about 10 years, Japan conducted multiple surveys to demonstrate that the islands are uninhabited, and to discover whether they were under china’s control. Through a Cabinet decision in January 14, 1895, Japanese integrated the Senkaku Islands into their territory. The Senkaku Islands, also known as Diaoyu Islands in China refers to a group of islands that includes Uotsuri, Kitakojima, Minamikojima, Kuba, Taisho, Okinokitaiwa, Okinominamiiwa, and Tobise located at the west side of the Nansei Shoto Islands. Since this event, the Japanese government has stressed and expressed that these islands are an integral part of Japan. With the exception of 1945 to 1972, these islands were always under their control. During this exception, the islands …show more content…

This dispute goes back to the first Sino-Japanese war in April 17, 1895. At the end of that war, China was defeated. They ceded Taiwan, and the Pescadores islands to Japan in the Treaty of Shimonoseki. In 1932 the Government sold the islands to the son of Tatsushiro, Zenji Koga. After the surrender of Japan at the end of World War II, they returned all territories of their conquest under the Potsdam and Cairo Declaration. Again, on September 8, 1951, Japan officially renounces the territories that it acquired through the Treaty of San Francisco. Because of this document, Japan lost Taiwan and the islands belonging to it back to China. Unfortunately, it did not end there, there was a second Sino-Japanese war. China and Japan signed the Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty that ended the war, which recognized the renouncement of Formosa/Taiwan and the Pescadores islands from Japan. Jumping into the 1970s, the Kurihara Family purchased the Senkaku islands from the Koga family. Officially, the disagreement about the islands started “after sovereignty reverted from American to Japanese control (a legacy from the postwar Treaty of San Francisco that gave the U.S. jurisdiction over some Japanese territory)” in 1971. It escalated when a Chinese fishing boat crashed into Japanese coastguards near the islands. The coastguards arrested the crew and their captain, Zhan Qixiong. A series of events occurred afterward such as protests in various Chinese cities, Chinese premier Wen Jiabo refused to meet with his Japanese counterpart, an embargo of exports of rare earth minerals was transported to Japan; the arrests of four Japanese businessmen in China, and several other events severed completely severed the relationship of both countries. Throughout the entire conflict, China intended to purchase the islands, but the Japanese government purchase the island on the pretext

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