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THE DIAOYUTAI/SENKAKU ISLANDS DISPUTE: ITS HISTORY and an ANALYSIS of the OWNERSHIP Claims of the P.R.C., R.O.C., and JAPAN Han-Yi Shaw* OccAsioNAl PApERs/ REpRiNTS SERiES iN CoNTEMpORARY AsiAN STudiEs NUMBER 3 - 1999 (152) THE DIAOYUTAIISENKAKU ISLANDS· DISPUTE: ITS HISTORY AND AN I ANALYSIS OF THE OWNERSHIP I CLAIMS OF THE P.R.C., R.O.C., AND JAPAN Han-yl Shaw Scltool of LAw () UNiVERSity of MARylAN~ •c ' Q Occasional Papers/Reprint Series in Contemporary Asian Studies General Editor: Hungdah Chiu Executive Editor: Chih-Yu Wu Associate Executive Editor: David Salem Assistant Editors: Yufan Li Wen C. Lee Managing Editor: Chih-Yu Wu Editorial Advisory Board Professor Robert A. Scalapino, University of California at Berkeley Professor Shao-chuan Leng, University of Virginia Professor J. S. Prybyla, The Pennsylvania State University Professor Bih-jaw Lin, National Chengchi University Professor Toshio Sawada, Sophia University, Japan Professor Gottfried-Karl Kindermann, Center for International Politics, University of Munich, Federal Republic of Germany Professor Choon-ho Park, International Legal Studies, Korea University, Republic of Korea All contributions (in English only) and communications should be sent to: Professor Hungdah Chiu, University of Maryland School of Law, 520 West Fayette Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21201-1700, USA. All publications in this series reflect only the views of the authors. While the editor accepts responsibility for the selection of materials to be published, the individual author is responsible for statements of facts and expressions of opinion contained therein. Subscription is US $30.00 per year for 6 issues (regardless of the price of individual issues) in the United States and $35.00 for Canada or overseas. Checks should be addressed to OPRSCAS. Tel.: (410) 706-3870 Fax: (410) 706-1516 Price for single copy of this issue: US $20.00 ISSN 0730-0107 ISBN 0-925153-67-2 © Occasional Papers/Reprints Series in Contemporary Asian Studies, Inc. THE DIAOYUTAI/SENKAKU ISLANDS DISPUTE: ITS HISTORY AND AN ANALYSIS OF THE OWNERSHIP ClAIMS OF THE P.R.C., R.O.C., AND JAPAN Han-yi Shaw* TABLE OF CONTENTS i\<:~o~~s •••.•.•.••.•..•...•••••••••••••..•..••••..•....•. 2 I. INTRODU<:TION • . • . • . • . • . • • . • • . • . • . • . • • • • . • . • . 5 II. GEOGRAPHICAL BACKGROUND OF THE ISLANDS . • . • . • • • • • • • • • 10 III. BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE HISTORY OF THE ISLANDS DISPUTE. 11 1. The 1970-1972 Crisis. • . 13 2. The 1978 Crisis •.......................................•. ·•... 16 3. The 1990 Crisis... • . • . • . • . 17 4. The 1996-1997 Crisis . 18 IY. jAPAN'S POSITION AND SUPPORTING EVIDEN<:E OF ITS ClAIM OF SOVEREIGNlY.. • . • • . • • . • • . • . • . • . • . • • . 22 1. Official Position of the Japanese Government . 22 2. Supporting Evidence from the Japanese Academia and Media. 28 V. THE PRC AND ROC'S POSITIONS AND SUPPORTING EVIDENCE OF THE CHINESE ClAIM . • . • • • . • • . • . • • • • . 37 1. Official Positions of the PRC and ROC Governments.... • • 37 2. Historical Evidence Supporting the Chinese Claim. • . 42 3. The Process of Incorporation into Japanese Territory as Revealed in Meiji Official Documents . 70 4. Chinese Refutation to the Japanese Claim...................... 112 VI. U.S. INVOLVEMENT AND POSITION TOWARD THE ISLANDS DISPUTE . • . • . • . • • . • . 123 VII. CONCLUSION: POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS ..••.....•......•.•.•....... 127 MAP ••••••••••••.••••.••••.•.•.•..•••.•..•...••••.•.•••••.••••••.••••.••. 134 APPENDIX .••.....•.••..•......•••.•......•.••••...................•••.• 135 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY .•.•.•..•••.............••••••.....••.•..••• 142 * Han-yi Shaw earned his degree at the University of Chicago in Political Science and East Asian languages and Civilizations. Research for this study was primarily under­ taken at the University of Chicago and the Kyoto Center for Japanese Studies (KCJS) administered by Stanford University. (1) 2 CoNTEMPORARY AsiAN STUDIES SERIES ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This study represents my very first book, and it proved to be a mammoth yet most worthwhile undertaking that would not have been possible without the generous help from a wide variety of people. It gives me much pleasure to be able to acknowledge at last the depths of my indebtedness. As certain parts of this study is based on my work done at the University of Chicago, I would like to first express my sincere thanks to my thesis advisor, Professor Guy Alitto. His supervision of my research, invaluable advise on the contents, and most of all, enthusiastic encouragement throughout the project, strengthened my determination to further expand this study after leaving Chicago. Then I traveled to Kyoto, the historical heartland of Japan, where I was enrolled for one semester at the Kyoto Center for Japanese Studies (KCJS) administered by Stanford University. Not only did this opportunity allow me to further learn the Japanese language in a most ideal environment, it further facilitated the continued research for this study through greater and easier access to Japanese source materials. Professor Terry MacDougall, Director of KCJS, was my supervisor and his comments and guidance immensely improved the substance, style and organization of this study as it continued to expand. Throughout the course of completing this study, countless debts of gratitude were incurred to many others, especially during the last six months while undertaking research in Taipei, Chicago, and New York. I would like to thank Professor Chang Chi-hsiung from the Institute of Modern History of the Academia Sinica in Taipei, who in a spirit of remarkable generosity, sent me precious copies of several crucial Meiji official documents, which he uncovered in the archives of the Diplomatic Records Office of the Ministry of Foreign Mfairs of Japan in Tokyo. My telephone conversations with Professor Lin Man-hung, also from the Institute of Modern History of the Academia Sinica, greatly enhanced my knowledge and understanding of the history ofTaiwan prior to the 17th century. I also wish to express my gratitude to Professor Ma Ying-jeou for sharing his insights and expertise on the subject with me through the stimulating conversation we had in his office at National Chengchi University in December 1997. I am thankful to DIAOYUTAIISENKAKU ISLANDS DISPUTE 3 Mr. Yang He-yi, who is a research fellow of the Institute of International Relations (IIR) of National Chengchi University and works at the IIR Tokyo office, for his willingness to share with me several important Japanese source materials obtained from the Japanese National Diet Library. I am particularly grateful to Professor Hungdah Chiu at the University of Maryland Law School for seeing merit in my work and offering me the greatest encouragement possible by publishing it for me. I would also like to extend my thanks to the many Japanese language teachers at the University of Chicago, Kyoto Center for Japanese Studies, and Columbia University who kindly aided me in the challenging, and often times dreadful, task of reading and translating the now obsolete soro-bun, the literary style in which Meiji official documents were written in. In addition, though not directly involved in the process of completing this study, I must not forget to mention the intellectual debts owed to Mr. Tsang Cheng­ yi, who currently teaches Chinese at the Taipei Municipal First Girls' Senior High School. Without the highly inspirational private tutoring of classical Chinese and literature I received from him upon returning to Taipei every summer for the past five years, my ability to read classical Chinese --- which proved so crucial in completing this study --- would have been far from adequate. By leading my way to further understand and reclaim my culture's intellectual heritage, Mr. Tsang's influence on me is deep and forever lasting. My thanks are also to Mr. Andrew Marble of Brown University, for overall stylistic improvement of this manuscript. Among the many libraries that provided me their excellent services are: the East Asian Library of the University of Chicago, the Kyoto University Fuzoku Library, the C.V. Starr East Asian Library of Columbia University, and the Earth Sciences and Map Library of the University of California at Berkeley. In particular, I would like to thank map librarian John Creaser at UC Berkeley, who often went beyond the call of duty to promptly send me copies of valuable Meiji-period Japanese nautical charts needed for this study. During the final months prior to completing this study, I also benefited from the sharing of ideas of this manuscript with various audiences at Harvard University and Columbia University. Special thanks are due to Professor Jerome A. Cohen at the Council on Foreign Relations, for generously reading the final draft of this 4 CONTEMPORARY ASIAN STUDIES SERIES manuscript and offering remarkably perceptive comments on both its substance and style leading to many final changes and tmprovements. I am indebted to, most of all, my parents, Yu-ming Shaw and Shiow-jyu Lu Shaw, for their boundless moral support, intellectual inspiration, and constant encouragement over the years. Both of them read draft versions of my manuscript with bewildering speed and thoroughness and furnished constructive suggestions and criticisms. My sister May-yi also played an immensely supportive role by offering warm and unfailing support during good and bad times alike. Also, to my dearest and closest friends, I am as ever thankful for their constant interest in and support of my work, especially during times when others appeared doubtful that this seemingly never-ending undertaking would in fact reach its final completion.
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