Sovereign Rights and Territorial Space in Sino-Japanese Relations: Irredentism and the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands

by Unryu Suganuma

In September 1996, members of the right-wing Japan Youth Federation repaired a lighthouse on one of the Diaoyu (J. Senkaku) Islands, a small group of uninhabited islets north of Taiwan in the Liuqiu (J. Ryukyu) chain, known today as Okinawa. For months, outraged ethnic Chinese in Hong Kong and Taiwan protested Japan's presence in the islands, and violent confrontations between protesters and the Japanese Marine Self-Defense Force resulted. Tension...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824824938
• ISBN13: 9780824824938
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"