{"id":98,"date":"2023-10-09T05:28:26","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T23:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/news\/uncategorized\/senkaku-islands\/"},"modified":"2023-10-09T06:28:19","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T00:58:19","slug":"senkaku-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/news\/upsc\/senkaku-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"Senkaku Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Senkaku Islands are close to strategically important shipping lanes, offer rich fishing grounds and are thought to contain oil deposits.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Japan and China claim the uninhabited islands, known as the Senkaku in Japan and Tiaoyu in China<\/strong>, as their own.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Senkakus island chain has been administered by Japan since&nbsp;1972, but its legal status has remained disputed&nbsp;until now.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Senkaku Islands are an <strong>uninhabited group of islands situated in the East China Sea, <\/strong>approximately 90 nautical miles north from the <strong>Yaeyama Islands <\/strong>in Japan\u2019s Okinawa Prefecture and 120 nautical miles northeast of the island of Taiwan.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The islands comprise <strong>Uotsuri Island, Kuba Island, Taisho Island (also called Kumeakashima Island), Kitakojima Island, Minamikojima Island, Tobise Island, Okinokitaiwa Island, and Okinominamiiwa Island.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The total land area of all the islands is roughly 6.3 square kilometers, with the largest, Uotsuri Island, being some 3.6 square kilometers in size.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Before World War II, as a result of development by private citizens, there were people living in the Senkakus, principally on Uotsuri Island and Kuba Island. 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