Senkaku Islands dispute
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The Senkaku Islands dispute, or Diaoyu Islands dispute, is a territorial dispute over a group of uninhabited islands known as the Senkaku Islands in Japan, the Diaoyu Islands in China, and Tiaoyutai Islands in Taiwan. Aside from a 1945 to 1972 period of administration by the United States as part of the Ryukyu Islands, the archipelago has been controlled by Japan since 1895. The territory is close to key shipping lanes and rich fishing grounds, and there may be oil reserves in the area.
Uotsuri-shima, the largest of the Senkaku Islands at 4.3 km2 (1.7 sq mi), in an aerial photograph taken in 1978 by the MLIT, the omnibus ministry which operates the Japan Coast Guard.
Workers at a bonito fisheries factory on Uotsurishima in the Senkaku Islands around 1910.
ROC Coast Guard vessel and Japan Coast Guard vessel.
Demonstration in Shenzhen, China on 17 September 2012
Senkaku Islands
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The Senkaku Islands, also known as the Pinnacle Islands or the Diaoyu Islands in China and as the Tiaoyutai Islands in Taiwan, are a group of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea, administered by Japan.
Japanese workers at a bonito fishery processing plant on Uotsuri-shima sometime around 1910
A cluster of islets – Uotsuri-shima (left), Kita-Kojima and Minami-Kojima (right)
Kita-Kojima (left) and Minami-Kojima (right)
Tobise rocks (bottom right)