Japan China dispute over islands.

The Senkaku Islands have been under the administrative control of the Government of Japan since having been returned as part of the reversion of Okinawa in 1972. Article 5 of the 1960 U.S.-Japan Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security states that the treaty applies to the territories under the administration of Japan; thus, Article 5 of the Mutual Security Treaty applies to the Senkaku Islands.
Sovereignty of the Senkaku Islands is disputed. The U.S. does not take a position on the question of the ultimate sovereignty of the Senkaku Diaoyu Islands. This has been our longstanding view. We expect the claimants will resolve this issue through peaceful means and we urge all claimants to exercise restraint.

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emperor said:

That is no doubt that Diaoyu Island belongs to China!!

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Article 5 of the Mutual Security Treaty applies to the Senkaku Islands.
The sovereignty of the Senkaku Islands is disputed.

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Article Ⅴ
Each Party recognizes that an armed attack against either Party in the territories under the administration of Japan would be dangerous to its own peace and safety and declares that it would act to meet the common danger in accordance with its constitutional provisions and processes.
Any such armed attack and all measures taken as a result thereof shall be immediately reported to the Security Council of the United Nations in accordance with the provisions of Article 51 of the Charter. Such measures shall be terminated when the Security Council has taken the measures necessary to restore and maintain international peace and security.

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Rocks which cannot sustain human habitation or economic life of their own shall have no exclusive economic zone or continental shelf.

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At high tide they sit barely 2 ft. above the Pacific -- when the ocean is calm -- and are no larger than a pair of king-size beds. Yet the two coral promontories, known as Okinotorishima (Offshore Bird Islands), 1,300 miles southwest of Tokyo, are the southernmost points of Japanese sovereignty. Under international law, they provide the country with an exclusive, fish-rich | economic zone of 163,000 sq. mi., an area larger than Japan itself -- as long as they remain above water. The islands, which once covered several square miles, are eroding at an alarming rate.

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Following reports that China is moving to full-scale development of an offshore natural gas field near Japan's exclusive economic zone in the East China Sea, Tokyo is planning to seek a deal with Beijing over the ownership of the fossil-fuel reserves.

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1. The delimitation of the exclusive economic zone between States with opposite or adjacent coasts shall be effected by agreement on the basis of international law, as referred to in Article 38 of the Statute of the International Court of Justice, in order to achieve an equitable solution.

2. If no agreement can be reached within a reasonable period of time, the States concerned shall resort to the procedures provided for in Part ⅩⅤ.

3. Pending agreement as provided for in paragraph 1, the States concerned, in a spirit of understanding and cooperation, shall make every effort to enter into provisional arrangements of a practical nature and, during this transitional period, not to jeopardize or hamper the reaching of the final agreement. Such arrangements shall be without prejudice to the final delimitation.

4. Where there is an agreement in force between the States concerned, questions relating to the delimitation of the exclusive economic zone shall be determined in accordance with the provisions of that agreement.

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Li also mentioned the ceremony for the 60th anniversary of the Allies' D-Day landings that led to the liberation of France and the defeat of Nazi Germany, held earlier this month in France with the first participation of the German chancellor, and recommended Japan follow Germany's example in dealing with its Asian neighbors, the officials said.

He was quoted as saying European people were able to ''naturally deal with their histories'' with Germany because of how the country acted, suggesting Japan learn by looking at how Germany has admitted to its responsibilities in World War II.

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In an apparent response to Chinese explorations for natural gas near Japan's exclusive economic zone in the East China Sea, the government is considering conducting a test-drill inside the zone, government sources said Tuesday.

In a meeting in Qingdao on Monday, Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi told Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing that Tokyo wanted Beijing to submit information on drilling sites planned by the Chinese consortium. Li, however, did not reply to her request.

The government is planning its own test-drills due to concern that Japan could lose resources lying within its EEZ if it does nothing to counter the Chinese moves. According to the sources, it takes about six months to make necessary preparations.

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Clearly the US administered the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands with the Okinawan islands under Article 3 of the 1951 San Francisco Treaty and transferred the islets to Japanese administration in the 1971 Agreement. However, these provisions were not predicated on the transfer of sovereignty. It was in Article 2, not Article 3, of the 1951 San Francisco Treaty that Japan renounced rights to various areas, including Formosa (Taiwan). The Reversion Agreement cited Article 3. Therefore, the US action restored the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands to the administrative status they held before the war. Although the US agreement with Japan cannot be viewed as changing the true sovereignty of the dispute islets, the American inclusion of the islets in a geographic definition of the Ryukyu Islands clearly supports Japan's contention that these islets were associated with Okinawa.

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Japan "should not take any action that will complicate the current situation," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue said in a statement.

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Lina Inverse said:

Judging from the independent British site bossel provided, the islets quite obviously belong to Japan

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Ogumo said:

I personally feel that historically yes these islands were indeed belonging to china. However now since they were put into japanese possesion they belong to us. I do not think that japan should willingly hand these islands over to the chinese.

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Wang said:

Those islands are officially a part of Japan.

China stop your land claim stealing. China already has very much land so stop trying to steal even more land with those ridiculous claims, you're just a bunch of expansionistic imperialists. You already invaded Tibet and Xinjiang that is actually Eastern Turkestan, what is next? You want to claim Siberia because of the oil reserves too?
China is a ULTRA Overpopulated country that sucks up very much resources like a ever growing BLACK HOLE.

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You may have heard a lot about Chinese invasion of Tibet or sympathetic about Tibet Independent movement in Western media. Do you know that China has 56 nationalities and is never a racist country in history. Do you know that Tibetan immigrated to Tibet several thousand years ago from other part of China? Do you know that when the Red Army entered Tibet in 1951, they also recovered other part of China (Chinese army invaded China????). Do you know that before 1951, the feudal lords in Tibet who constituted only five percent of the population possessed 95 percent of the means of production. Do you know that Buddhism was brought into Tibet from China Proper before being developed into the current state? Read the Tibet history before passing your judgment about a nation you have been misled in centuries.)

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Wang said:

China is a ULTRA Overpopulated country that sucks up very much resources like a ever growing BLACK HOLE.

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