Territorial Rights over the Senkaku Islands:The Starting Point and the Historical Process

Here, we review the history around the Senkaku Islands with a focus on the 1970s, in particular, the return of Okinawa to the normalization of diplomatic relations between Japan and China to the conclusion of the Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and China. [...] 1 The Japan Institute of International Affairs / Resource Library Territorial Rights over the Senkaku Islands: The Starting Point and the Historical Process Noda countered that the Senkaku Islands were “the inherent territory of Japan” and pointed out that “the increase in Chinese activities in the seas around the Senkakus are irritating the emotions of the Japanese people” and that “it is not des. [...] In 1968, ECAFE conducted a survey of the seabed of the East China Sea and published a report the following year that raised the possibility of oil deposits 2 The Japan Institute of International Affairs / Resource Library Territorial Rights over the Senkaku Islands: The Starting Point and the Historical Process Territorial Rights over the Senkaku Islands: The Starting Point and the Historical Proc. [...] This issue must be viewed from the overall perspective.” 10 The Japan Institute of International Affairs / Resource Library Territorial Rights over the Senkaku Islands: The Starting Point and the Historical Process Territorial Rights over the Senkaku Islands: The Starting Point and the Historical Process Deng made the Senkaku Islands an “issue that does not have to be brought up at the meeting” an. [...] relations, the reversion of the Senkaku Islands is explicitly stated in the Agreed Minutes to the Okinawa Reversion Agreement, and neither China nor Taiwan protested against the 1953 civil administration proclamation of the United States that formed the basis of this until the early 1970s.