As I said the Senkakus were officially merged to the Japanese Empire even before the 1st Sino Japanese War. We cannot return territory that we did not conquer from China since the islands were considered Terra Nulius.
Senkaku Shoto are this innate territory of Japan; now and for time immemorial. Until the pebbles turn to boulders covered in moss.
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The Samurai and the ninja.
no it isn't, Tokugawa Shogun was known as a closed off government, you didn't administer it, and you had no navy then either.
Whether these islands were in fact Chinese or Japanese is debatable, but what isn't debatable is, if all your response is, it's ours and that's that, you better be far stronger than us, except you are not. That's not your fault, more your ancestors who didn't leave you a real empire like ours did.
However it does complicate it for you. Dialog is needed, Japan need to compromise, it may not have to be giving up the islands, but you better not put your ADIZ right next to our shores. Tell me this isn't crazy.
You do know Japanese government is revising the text books to officially make the Korean held whatever islands a Japanese possession right. So, we are not the only ones doing this.
As to 9/10th of the law, Japan better back us up in SCS then, cause we possess 75%+ of all land mass there.
Seriously, i think China can make do without some tiny little uninhabited islands. China is a continental state with a vast land mass of 3.7 million square miles.
The Senkakus are only 7 kilometers (roughly 1700 acres). Is it really worth contending and jeopardizing our bilateral relations for 5 small islands and 3 rocks?
What both countries can do is go ahead with the joint exploration and development of the Chunxiao gas field like what we both had agreed to back in 2008,
Japan changed the status quo by buying the islands, what was China suppose to do, just take it and say nothing? Would you?
Also, why is it always us who needs to watch the economic impact, does Japan and the US have some magical creature protecting it from fall out? It goes both ways.
Again, you may be nationalistic, but I don't think you are stupid, do you really think at this point, no compromise would solve the problem. Are we just going to forget about it?