"China does not have any grounds to consider Senkaku its territory. There is abundant evidence of this. These islands belong to Japan historically, and we control them on legal grounds," Suga said.
On Monday, the Japanese Foreign Ministry posted a map on its website that is claimed to be taken from a Chinese geography atlas of 1969. The disputed islands are marked there by a Japanese toponym Senkaku. Japan claims this proves that China changed the islands’ name to Diaoyu only after natural gas reserves were discovered close to the islands.
The territorial dispute between Japan and China around Senkaku intensified after Tokyo announced in 2012 that it bought the islands from private owners. Mass anti-Japanese demonstrations were held in China after that. Since then, Chinese ships constantly remain in the proximity of the disputed islands and occasionally enter the coastal zone.
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Foreign Ministry’s 1969 China map identifies Senkaku Islands by Japanese name...
ReplyDeleteThe Foreign Ministry has published on its website a map released by a Chinese government organ in 1969 calling the disputed Senkaku Islands by their Japanese name.
The ministry’s website already had a Taiwanese map of 1970 using the same name.
Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said that putting the 1969 map on the website was aimed at showing both Japan and its neighbors have historically considered the island group in the East China Sea as Japanese territory.
Japan administers the islands, which it considers to be part of Okinawa Prefecture, but China and Taiwan both claim them, calling them Diaoyu and Tiaoyutai, respectively.............http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/17/national/politics-diplomacy/foreign-ministrys-1969-china-map-identifies-senkaku-islands-by-japanese-name/#.VQhUBI4YE9Q
17/3/15