Coming attractions
Posted by ampontan on Friday, September 24, 2010
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In 1920, the Japanese rescued 31 Chinese fishermen who were shipwrecked on one of the smaller islets. The Chinese consul in Nagasaki wrote a letter of gratitude to the Japanese thanking them for their help. In the body of the letter, he referred to them by the Japanese term Senkaku islets (尖閣列島
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instead of the Chinese name, Daiyutai (釣魚島
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. In other words, the Chinese considered them Japanese territory in 1920.
8 January 1953: Renmin Ribao (People’s Daily) published an article titled “The Ryukyu Islanders’ Struggle against American Occupation” (i.e., Okinawa). The article mentioned the Senkakus, used that name, and stated they were part of the Ryukyus.
1953: Renmin Ribao says Senkakus part of Japan
The People's Daily/Renmin Ribao is a daily newspaper in the People's Republic of China. The paper is an organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC),
The View from Taiwan: 1953: Renmin Ribao says Senkakus part of Japan
October 1965: The Research Institute for Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense published a series of world maps. It showed the islets as part of Japanese territory and used the Japanese name Senkakus.
January 1970: The Taiwan government published a geography textbook for junior high school students that called the islands the Senkakus and treated them as Japanese territory.
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