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	NATIONALISM GONE AWRY: DEATH IN THE DIAOYUS
		But his intention is to fill the gap in the national psyche that used to be occupied by socialism, not to encourage provocative gestures against neighbors such as Japan.
		But for ordinary Chinese, whether on the mainland or in Hong Kong or Taiwan, the Diaoyus have become a rallying point for the defense of national pride, as well as an excuse to demonstrate an enduring dislike for the Japanese, their wartime masters.
		He and his colleagues are worried that once public protests begin, they won't stop at the issue of the Diaoyu Islands or Japanese war crimes, but will inevitably turn against the communist leadership itself.
	www.time.com /time/international/1996/961007/diaoyu.html (784 words)

	Diaoyu Islands Dispute
		The earliest historical records of the islands are Chinese navigation records from 1403, and references to Diaoyu Islands occur in Chinese logs and Chinese maps of the Liu Chiu chain from that time.
		This event showed that the Diaoyu Islands issue was not only simply a problem of who owned the natural resource, it also had been used by opposition parties as a tool to attack the government's ability to handle this issue.
		All the Diaoyu Islands lie within the 200-m isobath, at the edge of the Asian geologic continental shelf.
	www.american.edu /projects/mandala/TED/ice/DIAOYU.HTM (2755 words)

	China's Diaoyu Islands Sovereignty is Undeniable
		However, according to He Yu, a researcher with the Institute of Qing History Studies at the Renmin University of China, "lying within the 200-metre isobath, the Diaoyu Islands, at the eastern edge of the East China Sea, are part of the Chinese geologic continental shelf.
		In fact, according to historical records, the Diaoyu Islands were considered as important frontiers for China's off-shore defence against "wokou" (Japanese pirates) during the Ming and Qing dynasties (1368-1911), according to He.
		The Diaoyu Islands were included in the group of islands which the US returned to Japan in 1972 under the treaty.
	english.people.com.cn /200305/25/eng20030525_117192.shtml (1379 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Asia-Pacific \| Row over Japan's islands claim
		The tiny islands are among five uninhabited islands known in Japanese as the Senkaku islands and by China and Taiwan as the Diaoyu islands.
		The islands, which lie between Taiwan and the southern Japanese islands of Okinawa, in the East China Sea, are claimed by all three countries and are believed to be rich in oil resources.
		Japan claimed the islands in 1895 and sold the islands to descendents of the original settlers in 1932.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/2624445.stm (387 words)

	To Occupy China's Diaoyu Islands, Japan's Fond Dream for Long
		When asked about reports that Japan will rent the three uninhabited islands from their "private owner," Chinese FM spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue said on January 2 that the Diaoyu Islands have been Chinese territory since ancient times, and any unilateral claim by Japan is invalid.
		The Diaoyu Islands are the inherent territory of China.
		Different from the northern four islands (Habomai, Kunashiri, Etorofu and Shikitan, over which Japan and Russia have disputes but actually under the control of Russia), Japan has never in the least slackened its pursuit for the actual control of the three islands.
	english.people.com.cn /200301/09/eng20030109_109826.shtml (649 words)

	Asia Times Online - The trusted news source for information on Japan
		In late March, a group of seven mainland Chinese activists landed on one of the disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands in an effort to solidify China's claim to the small island chain, triggering the latest in a growing trend of brief spats involving Tokyo, Beijing and, to a lesser extent, Taipei.
		The island chain accounts for only 20 square kilometers of land made up of the five islands and three rock outcroppings, yet it is far from an inconsequential no-man's land.
		Geography seems to lend credence to the case that the islands are more a part of Taiwan than Okinawa (as they are closer to Taiwan, and are separated from Okinawa by a deep ocean trench), yet this same reasoning dictates that China's claim to these islands is largely dependent on its claim to Taiwan.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Japan/FE06Dh02.html (1109 words)

	Japanese Ramming Hong Kong vessel from disputed islands - Military Photos
		The islands which are being called the Senkaku Islands in Japan and to which the Japanese Government claims title have historically been definitely China's territory.
		Favorable currents invited Taiwanese fisherman to sail around the islands, to plant their nets in its abundant waters, to use them as shelter during storms, and collect medicinal herbs on the rocky shores.
		Whether the Diaoyu islands are returned to the PRC or the Republic of China, the world cannot keep ignoring the legitimate claims these two governments have presented.
	www.militaryphotos.net /forums/showthread.php?t=95469 (1172 words)

	Japanese Militarism & Diaoyutai (Senkaku) Island - A Japanese Historian's View
		The so-called Senkaku Islands were recorded in Chinese documents in the middle of the 16th century at the latest, under the names of Tiaoyu Island (Diaoyu Island, Diaoyu Tai), Huangwei Yu, etc. (Yu means islet).
		Furthmore, at the end of the explanatory notes on the Ishigaki and eight neighbouring islands of the Yaeyama Archipelago, it was written that the eight islands were "the southwestern most boundary of Ryukyu" (the Iriomote Island of the Yaeyama group among the Ryukyu Islands being the nearest to the Taioyu (Daioyu) Island).
		Sailing from Ryukyu to the Tiaoyu Island (Diaoyutai) was particularly difficult because it was against the wind and the tide.
	www.skycitygallery.com /japan/diaohist.html (3197 words)

	Natural Resource Control is the Root of Conflict
		In late March 2004, a group of seven mainland Chinese activists landed on one of the disputed Senkaku/ Diaoyu Islands in an effort to solidify China's claim to the small island chain, triggering the latest in a growing trend of brief spats between Tokyo, Beijing, and, to a lesser extent, Taipei.
		While no development of oil resources under the Senkaku/ Diaoyu Islands is being seriously pursued at present, each party involved is eager to secure sovereignty over the islands as doing so will ensure tens of thousands of square kilometers of exclusive economic zone in the surrounding waters.
		Geography seems to lend credence to the case that the islands are more a part of Taiwan than Okinawa (as they are closer to Taiwan, and are separated from Okinawa by a deep ocean trench), yet this same reasoning dictates that China's claim to these islands is largely dependent on China's claim to Taiwan.
	www.progress.org /2004/yt14.htm (1177 words)

	The Croydonian: More on the Diaoyu / Senkaku Islands
		Having rather telegraphed their intentions, I suppose the Hong Kong Chinese voyagers intent on planting the red flag on the islands should not be overly surprised that they were intercepted by the Japanese Coast Guard.
		However, this dispute is as nothing compared to the Spratly Islands, to which the 'People's Republic' of China, Vietnam, the Phillipines, Taiwan, Brunei and Malaysia all lay claim to in whole or in part.
		These islands are part of the the historic homeland of the Republic of Argentina.
	croydonian.blogspot.com /2006/10/more-on-diaoyu-senkaku-islands.html (494 words)

	Civilian association applies for legal lease of Diaoyu Islands to develop tourism
		A "Forum of the Chinese on the Globe for Safeguarding Diaoyu Islands" was held from Dec 26 to 28 in Xiamen (Amoy).
		The Diaoyu Islands are part of the Chinese territory no matter how to judge them in the source of history, or in line with the international law and the geographical framework.
		Therefore to safeguard the security of the Diaoyu Islands is not only the struggle between the Chinese civilians against the Japanese army but actually it is a very strong force constituting of all the Chinese people and the people at home and abroad.
	english.peopledaily.com.cn /200401/07/eng20040107_132048.shtml (963 words)

	ISN Security Watch - Ways forward East China Sea dispute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		China holds that the Diaoyu Islands are small, uninhabited, and cannot sustain economic life of their own, and thus according to the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (1982 UNCLOS) are not entitled to generate a continental shelf or a 200nm EEZ.
		Taiwan also holds that âThe Diaoyudao Islands themselves are not entitled to have a continental shelf or EEZ, and thus have no significant legal effects on the boundary delimitation in the East China Sea.â However Japan argues that the features are legal islands and are therefore entitled to have continental shelves and EEZs.
		Islands of similar location, economic utility, and legal status to those of the Diaoyutai/Senkakus have invariably been ignored in seabed boundary delimitations between opposite states.
	www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details.cfm?ID=16699 (3085 words)

	Expedition to Diaoyu Islands slated for May
		HK community organizations plan to embark in May on another expedition to proclaim China's territorial rights to the Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea.
		Diaoyu Island and adjacent isles are part of the the Chinese territorial sovereignty.
		Members of the Action Committee for Defending the Diaoyu Islands Friday demanded the Japanese Government stop infringing upon China's sovereignty to the island chain.
	www.chinadaily.com.cn /english/doc/2005-02/27/content_419784.htm (527 words)

	The World Today - Chinese activists want Diaoyu Islands returned
		It was an action coordinated with yesterday's landing of seven Chinese activists on the disputed Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea.
		Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi told reporters the chain of volcanic islands was Japan's sovereign territory, and that he wanted the Chinese side to firmly deal with the incursion.
		Sovereignty of the Diaoyu Islands is a rallying point, but so are issues like US world dominance, and Taiwanese independence.
	www.abc.net.au /worldtoday/content/2004/s1073844.htm (583 words)

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		The four islands extend from the northeastern tip of Hokkaido and were occupied by Soviet troops in the closing days of World War II.
		SENKAKU: Diaoyu to rival claimants China and Taiwan, the craggy islets lie between Taiwan and Okinawa in the East China Sea.
		The island chain is surrounded by fishing grounds and is regularly occupied by nationalists of both sides.
	www.ksdk.com /printfullstory.aspx?storyid=99275 (1310 words)

	CNN.com - Rented islands strain Sino-Japanese relations - Jan. 1, 2003
		Yomiuri reported that Tokyo began renting the islands in April 2002 after signing an $188,300 one-year contract with the owner, and the Japanese government plans to renew its contract after the current lease expires at the end of March.
		Japan claimed the archipelago in 1895, and sold the islands to descendants of the original settlers in 1932.
		In Hong Kong, a spokesman for the Protect the Diaoyu Islands Committee said the Japanese government's renting of the territory was even worse than actions such as rightist politicians planting flags on the islets.
	edition.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/asiapcf/east/01/01/China.islets (444 words)

	The Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands Dispute
		On 7 October protesters briefly landed on Uotsuri/Diaoyu Island and raised the PRC and ROC flags, which were later removed by the Japanese.
		All of the disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands are within the polygon delimiting the returned islands, the coordinates of which were listed in Agreed Minutes that were appended to the 1971 Japan-US Ryukyu Islands Reversion Agreement.
		The 1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki mentioned the "Island of Formosa together with all Islands appertaining or belonging to the said Island of Formosa." The 1951 Japanese Peace Treaty signed in San Francisco included a renunciation of all Japanese rights, title, and claim to "Formosa and the Pescadores" in Article 2.
	www-ibru.dur.ac.uk /resources/docs/senkaku.html (1786 words)

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		The islands reverted to Japanese administration in May 1972 under the terms of the Ryukyu Islands Reversion Agreement between Japan and the United States.
		They attached to the Diaoyu/ Senkaku incident a resurgence of Japanese militarism and the effect of Japanese textbooks having failed to educate the youth about their nation’s wickedness.
		The most recent postponement of the issue came in a joint Sino-Japanese announcement in April l997 to the effect that the island dispute would be shelved in an effort to solve fishery differences related to Japan’s 200-mile exclusive economic zone.
	mcel.pacificu.edu /aspac/scholars/Critchfield/Critch1.HTML (4190 words)

	Determined to defend Diaoyu Islands
		She made the remark as activists hoping to plant the Chinese flag on the island were turned away Thursday by Japan's Coast Guard.
		They wanted to use their action to safeguard the "sacred sovereignty of the Chinese nation over the islands" and counter the brazen provocative acts by right-wing Japanese groups who used "numerous visits" to the island and its surrounding islets to claim sovereignty, the sohu.com website reported.
		The latest move by Chinese activists to claim sovereignty over the islands drew widespread support and respect from netizens, who left tens of thousands of messages praising their "brave acts" and condemning the Japanese Coast Guard's interception of the Chinese boat.
	www.chinadaily.com.cn /en/doc/2003-10/10/content_270524.htm (569 words)

	CNN - Japanese legislator lands on disputed islands - May 6, 1997
		TOKYO (CNN) -- A Japanese nationalist legislator landed on one of a group of disputed islands, setting off a chain of harsh words from China and Taiwan and a rebuke from the Japanese government.
		The islands, known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, are the center of a decades-long controversy between China, Taiwan and Japan, each claiming ownership of the rocky, uninhabited islands in the East China Sea.
		Japan took the islands, which belonged to China for centuries, in 1895 after defeating imperial China, and refuses to discuss the issue.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9705/06/china.japan (456 words)

	Japan's Territorial Disputes \| Internet Guide \| National Clearinghouse for U.S.-Japan Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Variously referred to as "islands" (Japan) a coral reef, or a "bunch of rocks" (China), Okinotori is located about 1,100 miles south of Tokyo and is claimed by China and by Japan (under the jurisdiction of the Tokyo Municipal Government).
		BBC News article that notes that the governor of Tokyo is attempting to strengthen Japan 's claims to the islands (of which only a few square meters remains dry at high tide) by fostering economic activity in the area.
		China maintains that Okinotori is not large enough to qualify as an "island" according to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, thus Japan cannot claim an EEZ.
	www.indiana.edu /~japan/iguides/disputes.htm (1005 words)

	CNN - Japanese coast guard wins standoff with protesters - May 26, 1997
		A September attempt to land on the disputed islands resulted in the drowning death of protest leader David Chan, who jumped overboard into rough seas.
		The uninhabited islands, in the middle of proven fishing grounds and possibly oil-rich, have been a major point of contention since a Japanese nationalist group built a small lighthouse on one of the islands in July 1996.
		The island chain is 120 miles (190 kilometers) from Taiwan, and 270 miles (430 km) from Okinawa.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9705/26/islands.taiwan (402 words)

	Beijing Reaffirms Position on Diaoyu Islands, Taiwan
		The Diaoyu Islands are a disputed region between China and Japan in the East China Sea.
		Spokesman Kong reaffirmed in June that China has indisputable sovereignty over the Diaoyu Islands and its adjacent islands and that any attempts to seize the Chinese territory will not succeed.
		FM Spokesman Reiterates Diaoyu Islands as Chinese Territory
	www.china.org.cn /english/international/71437.htm (488 words)

	TwoConservatives: A Tale of two Islands
		Allen asked Webb was asked about Craney Island, an island here in Virginia critical to our economy, host to a military operation, and future site of a port which Allen fought for.
		Webb had no idea what the island was, which Allen used to good advantage highlighting both Webb's lack of knowledge of an important economic development, AND allowing Allen to note his own acheivement.
		Tonight, Webb had his chance to return the favor, and he too picked an island, but not one that was all that important to Virginians, as it turns out it was an island in the south pacific: Senkaku Island.
	twoconservatives.blogspot.com /2006/10/tale-of-two-islands.html (658 words)

	Barring of Diaoyu defenders 'unreasonable' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		A group of Hong Kong people started their voyage to the Diaoyu Islands on October 22 in an aim to land on it and plant Chinese flags, but they had to retreat after Japanese ships rammed and hosed water onto their vessel.
		The Diaoyu Islands and adjacent islets have been Chinese territory since ancient times and China has incontestable historical and legal evidence on this, the Chinese official said, adding that it is completely legitimate for the Chinese citizens to declare such sovereignty.
		The so-called "actual control" of the Diaoyu Islands by Japan severely infringes China's sovereignty, the official said.
	en.ce.cn /National/Government/200610/28/t20061028_9170242.shtml (284 words)

	3RD LD: Chinese activists leave Japanese waters near Senkaku Islands Asian Political News - Find Articles
		Two of the 20 Chinese activists, who attempted to land on the disputed Senkaku Islands, were injured during a struggle with the Japan Coast Guard when their fishing vessels approached the isles in the East China Sea earlier Thursday, according to supporters in Xiamen in China's Fujian Province.
		Japan, China and Taiwan all claim the isles, which are known as the Diaoyu Islands in China and the Tiaoyutais in Taiwan.
		Tong Zeng, head of the Chinese Civilians' Alliance for Defending the Diaoyu Islands, which organized the voyage, earlier said it applied for permission to launch the visit with the Chinese authorities in accordance with the law.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0WDQ/is_2004_Jan_16/ai_112548948 (822 words)

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