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After the farce of "renaming", Japan's Ishigaki City was still provoking. According to the Japan Broadcasting Association (NHK) on the 24th, Ishigaki City, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, disclosed on the 23rd that the stone stele made after changing the name of the Diaoyu Islands (known as the Senkaku Islands) for its administrative division. According to reports, the Ishigaki City Government also announced on the same day that it planned to apply to the Japanese government to go to the island in an attempt to erect a stone stele with the words "Senkaku Islands" written on the Diaoyu Islands.
NHK: Ishigaki City has made a stone tablet with a new name written on it, and plans to apply to the Japanese government to go to the island
This farce will start from last October. In October 2020, the Ishigaki City Council passed a majority vote to change the name of the Diaoyu Islands (known as the Senkaku Islands) "contained in the city's administrative divisions" from "Noborino Castle" to "Noborino Castle Senkaku".
NHK said that in response to the change in the so-called "name of the administrative division", the Ishigaki city government produced five stone tablets with the new name of the island. Kyodo News Agency said that the stele had the names of the "Yaeyama Senkaku Islands" and the names of the islands on the front, and "Noborino Castle Senkaku" on the back, and the production cost was about 2 million yen (about 118,000 yuan).
Not only that, but Ishigaki City even tried to erect these stone tablets on the corresponding islands. Ishigaki Mayor Yoshitaka Nakayama declared at the stone monument press conference on the same day that "it is important for the Japanese people to widely understand the 'Senkaku Islands'" and that "the new logo can convey the 'history' of the island to the next generation."
Ishigaki City Government announces the stone monument (Image source: Japanese media)
In recent times, Japan has made one provocative move after another on the issue of the Diaoyu Islands. A spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council has previously said that the Diaoyu Dao has been China's territory since ancient times, and compatriots on both sides of the strait bear the responsibility of safeguarding China's sovereignty and territorial integrity, and should think and work hard to make efforts to jointly safeguard the overall and fundamental interests of the Chinese nation.
On the issue of China's Diaoyu Dao, China's position is clear and consistent. A spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry has said on many occasions that the Diaoyu Dao and its affiliated islands have been China's inherent territory since ancient times, and China has a sufficient historical and legal basis for its sovereignty over the Diaoyu Dao. What the Japanese side has done cannot change the objective fact that the Diaoyu Dao belongs to China, and China's determination to safeguard the territorial sovereignty of the Diaoyu Islands is unswerving.
The Diaoyu Dao and its affiliated islands are an inalienable part of China's territory, and the Chinese side has repeatedly made statements. In July this year, when Japan released the 2021 edition of the Defense White Paper, claiming that the Diaoyu Islands are Japanese territory, Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian responded that the Diaoyu Islands and their affiliated islands are an inalienable part of China's territory. He also said that China's patrol law enforcement activities in the waters of the Diaoyu Dao are exercising its inherent powers and are legitimate and lawful.