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[quote=COOLSPRINGS,408004]Japan's victory in the Sino-Japanese War (July 1894 - February 1895) spurred them on.

In December 1894, Japan's interior minister again consulted the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the case of annexing the area. The Cabinet approved the move in early 1895, three months earlier than signing of the Treaty of Shimonoseki that ceded Taiwan to Japan.

Nevertheless, Japan still hesitated to publicly announce its annexation of the islands in its official publications.

In fact, as Zhang noted, it was not publicized until December 1950 - 55 years later.

During World War II, the Allied powers committed themselves in the Cairo Declaration of 1943 to restore to China all the territories Japan had seized from the Chinese, such as Manchuria, Taiwan and the Pescadores or Penghu Islands. This was reaffirmed in the Potsdam Proclamation of 1945.

Japan later officially expressed its acceptance of the declaration in writing after it surrendered to the Allied forces.

It means the sovereignty of the Diaoyu Islands, which are part of Taiwan, should have been returned to China at the end of World War II.

What makes the issue complicated is that the Americans took over the Diaoyu Islands in 1945 and wrongfully returned them, along with Okinawa, to Japan instead of China in 1972 under the Japan-US Okinawa Reversion Treaty, which was signed without China's participation or recognition.

Japan bases its argument largely on the treaty.

The United States in 1990 reiterated that according to the 1951 San Francisco Peace Treaty with Japan, the US had only administrative authority over Okinawa, therefore the 1972 handover to Japan of the disputed islands was not legitimate.

It all adds up to overwhelmingly show that Japan's persistent sovereignty claim is groundless and plainly wrong.

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