ABSTRACT
Japan utilizes official Qing dynasty and Republic of China documents to argue that China formerly recognizes the islands as Japanese territory before Japan's official acquisition at the end of the nineteenth century. As Taiwan is separated from China with the 1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki, Beijing argues that Taiwan is part of the China, like the Senkakus. The Senkakus, a part of Japan's southwest islands group, never includes in the territory that Japan gives up as a result of signing the San Francisco Treaty. It is controlled by the United States after World War II and returned to Japan along with rest of Okinawa in 1972. However, beyond the argument China successfully constructs an image in which, rather than defending Japan territory, a revisionist Japan is engaged in a new invasion of Chinese-controlled lands. China seeks to give international community the illusion that the Senkakus is recovered by China after World War II and reclaimed by rising tide of Japanese militarism.
