{"id":1362,"date":"2012-09-20T01:06:21","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T06:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/japan\/?p=1362"},"modified":"2014-08-30T13:59:07","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T13:59:07","slug":"senkaku-islands-new-sources-new-clarity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2012\/09\/senkaku-islands-new-sources-new-clarity\/","title":{"rendered":"Senkaku Islands: New Sources, New Clarity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYT reporter Nick Kristof brought in a guest blogger, Han-Yi Shaw of Taiwan, to examine some new mid-Meiji documentation about <a href=\"http:\/\/kristof.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/09\/19\/the-inconvenient-truth-behind-the-diaoyusenkaku-islands\/?smid=tw-share\">Japan&#8217;s relationship with the contested Senkaku\/Daiyou islands<\/a>. The core of Shaw&#8217;s findings is<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>the Meiji government acknowledged Chinese ownership of the islands back in 1885.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After several abortive attempts to survey the islands, the Japanese government declared them incorporated Japanese territory during the Sino-Japanese war, despite recognizing that it should have been negotiated with China.  As territory seized in 1895, it should have been reverted to China in 1945, but for a variety of reasons, including an administrative shift of the islands from Taiwan to Okinawa prefecture, it remained outside of negotiations until a few years later. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a reasonably persuasive presentation, historically, though I don&#8217;t think that these details are going to shift Japanese nationalists, even mild or moderate ones, to support politicians who would abandon Japan&#8217;s claim to these useless rocks which sit in such valuable territory. And as long as there&#8217;s no particular cost to maintaining the claim &#8212; Chinese hostility to Japan is not predicated on this issue sufficiently that abandoning the claim would eliminate anti-Japanese sentiment as a nationalist motivational tool of the mainland regime &#8212; it seems unlikely that anything will change, except a few American lectures. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYT reporter Nick Kristof brought in a guest blogger, Han-Yi Shaw of Taiwan, to examine some new mid-Meiji documentation about Japan&#8217;s relationship with the contested Senkaku\/Daiyou islands. The core of Shaw&#8217;s findings is the Meiji government acknowledged Chinese ownership of the islands back in 1885. After several abortive attempts to survey the islands, the Japanese&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[102,171,37,129,63,61,84,205,206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china-japan","category-colonial-taiwan","category-foreign-views","category-historiography","category-japan","category-nationalism","category-war","category-205","category-206"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-lY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5476,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions\/5476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}