Ryukyu was originally a vassal state in Ming and Qing Dynasties, and paid tribute to them. In Ming and Qing Dynasties, envoys were sent to confer titles on the Ryukyu King. Diaoyu Island is the only way to Ryukyu. The envoys sent to the Ryukyu King all used these islands as navigation marks. Official documents such as "The Story of Making Ryukyu" recorded in detail the sailing experience to Ryukyu via Diaoyu Island, Huangwei Island and chiwei yu, and confirmed the boundary between China and Ryukyu many times. Historical facts show that Diaoyu Island does not belong to Ryukyu.
China's ancient books, such as "Geng Xu Shu" and "Farewell with the Wind", completely recorded the routes of China fishermen in this sea area. In the five centuries before 1895, China had been successfully exercising these rights.
1 17 1 year (the seventh year of the Southern Song Dynasty), Wang Dayou, a general guarding Fujian, set up a military camp in Penghu and sent troops to various islands. Taiwan Province Province and its affiliated islands, including Diaoyu Island, are under the military jurisdiction of Penghu, and are administratively managed by Jinjiang, Quanzhou, Fujian.
1786, Lin Shiping, a vassal of Sendai, Japan, made a panorama of the Three Kingdoms, which listed Diaoyu Island and marked it as the waterway from China to Ryukyu. 98 years later, in 1884, Koga Shiro, a native of Fukuoka, Japan, claimed to have "discovered" Diaoyu Island and its affiliated islands, and applied to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan for inclusion in the territory of Japan (in 6544, Japanese Interior Minister Yamagata Aritomo wrote to Foreign Minister Noue Kaoru on this matter.
Noue Kaoru replied on 1885: "This island is close to the territory of the Qing Dynasty, and it is much smaller than the Dadong Island Fiona Fang, which was surveyed before. The Qing Dynasty has named it. Recently, the "Qing Pao" and so on, are rumored that our government will occupy the Qing state capital near Taiwan Province Province.
As an island country, we are suspicious of our country, and our country has been warned by the Qing government many times. At this time, if the national standards are openly and suddenly implemented, it is easy to be suspected by the Qing state. I think we can make a field trip for the time being and report the shape and opening of the harbor in detail.
The development of land and products, the establishment of national standards and all the development can be left for the future. In response to Noue Kaoru's suggestion, Yamagata Aritomo replied to Okinawa, refusing to immediately establish a national standard on the Diaoyu Islands, and stressed in the letter that the incident "should not be known to the media.
The Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War of 1894 broke out on 1894. At the end of the war, Japan passed a cabinet meeting decision in 1895+ 14, claiming that Diaoyu Island was "no land", establishing national standards on Diaoyu Island and officially entering Japanese territory. 17 In April, China and Japan signed the treaty of shimonoseki, which indicated that "the whole island of Taiwan Province Province and all its affiliated islands" would be ceded to Japan. The treaty also indicated that the two countries would demarcate their maritime boundaries respectively according to this clause and the map of Taiwan attached to the treaty.
In chronological order, the occupation of Diaoyu Island and its affiliated islands was related to treaty of shimonoseki and the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895. However, the Japanese believed that Diaoyu Island was not ceded from treaty of shimonoseki, and since then, China and Japan have not formally demarcated a detailed maritime boundary.
The Potsdam Proclamation of 1945 once again confirmed that the above provisions of the Cairo Declaration will be implemented, and even limited Japan's sovereignty to Honshu and Hokkaido.
Small islands such as Kyushu and Shikoku are up to us. "
1946 65438+1October 29th, the United Nations Supreme Command Order No.667 clearly defined the territorial scope of Japan, namely, "the four main islands of Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu) and the islands including Malaysia.
About 1000 adjacent islands south of 30 degrees north latitude of Ryukyu Islands. The territory of Japan defined in Cairo Declaration and Potsdam Proclamation is clear and does not include Diaoyu Island at all.
195 1 On September 8th, 2008, Japan and the United States ruled out China and the Soviet Union, which won the war against Japan, and privately reached the San Francisco Peace Treaty, which entrusted the southwestern islands south of 29 north latitude (including Ryukyu Islands and Dadong Islands) to the United States.
Tube. 1953, 1953 On February 25, 1953, the Geographical Map of Ryukyu Islands (Announcement No.27) issued by the Ryukyu People's Government of the United States defined the area under the jurisdiction of the United States Government and the Ryukyu Government at that time as including 24 north latitude.
Islands, islets, atolls, rocks and territorial waters in the east longitude 122 area. The scope determined by this notice will include Diaoyu Island, the territory of China. 1971June 2007 17, Japan and the United States signed the Okinawa Return Agreement.
At that time, these islands were also included in the "return area". On this basis, the Japanese government advocates territorial sovereignty over the Diaoyu Islands.
Everyone knows what happened afterwards.