Senkaku Islands
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The Senkaku Islands, known as the Diaoyu Islands in China and the Diaoyutai Islands in Taiwan, are a group of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea, administered by Japan. They were historically k
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)
Ryukyu Islands
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The Ryukyu Islands, also known as the Nansei Islands or the Ryukyu Arc, are a chain of Japanese islands that stretch southwest from Kyushu to Taiwan. Administratively, they are divided between Kagoshi
Senkaku Islands
…as the Pinnacle Islands. The islands are located northeast of Taiwan, east of China, west of Okinawa Island, and north of the southwestern end of the Ryukyu Islands. The islands are the focus of a territorial dispute between Japan, China, and Taiwan. China claims the discovery and ownership of the islands from the…
Location of the Ryukyu Islands
The last sunset in Japan is seen from Yonaguni.
Okinawa Islands during the Sanzan Period
Ryukyu delegates in Ten Thousand Nations Coming to Pay Tribute (1761), which depicts foreign delegations in Beijing