Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato said at a press conference before noon on October 5 that the Chinese government has asked the Chinese government through diplomatic channels to remove the “National Maritime Intelligence Center”, a subsidiary of China’s State Oceanic Administration (SOA), from the Diaoyu Islands Digital Museum website, which was officially launched on October 3.
Kato pointed out that there is no reason for the Chinese side to make a webpage about the Senkaku Islands, an inherent territory of our country. Such a unilateral claim based on the Chinese side is totally unacceptable.
. According to Xinhua, “The museum consists of a prologue and three exhibition halls with displays of historical images, video materials, documents, legal documents, physical simulations, various models, animated stories, news reports and scholarly treatises, as well as interactive sessions with interpreters and curators for questions and answers.”
It is estimated that China opened the site because Ishigaki City in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, changed the name of the address of the Diaoyu Islands (known as the Senkaku Islands in Japan), which are included in the administrative division of the city, from “Tono Castle” to “Tono Castle Senkaku” on October 1. The city council passed the name change bill by a majority vote in June. Mainland China and Taiwan, which claim sovereignty over the islands, have protested and opposed the change.
On June 22, the Ishigaki City Council passed a resolution to change the name of “Tono Castle” to “Tono Castle Senkaku” for the Diaoyu Islands (known as the “Senkaku Islands” in Japan), which are currently under the administrative jurisdiction of the city. “The resolution was adopted by a majority vote. The resolution went into effect on October 1. This is a serious provocation of China’s territorial sovereignty, and China has recently taken a series of confrontational actions against it, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said at a regular Foreign Ministry press briefing on June 22.
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