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Foreign Ministry's 1969 China map identifies Senkaku Islands by Japanese name

A screenshot of a PDF uploaded to the Foreign Ministry site highlights the difference between two maps of the Senkaku Islands . | COURTESY OF KDDI CORP.

By Masaaki Kameda
Staff Writer

Mar 17, 2015

The Foreign Ministry has published on its website a map released by a Chinese government organ in 1969 calling the disputed Senkaku Islands by their Japanese name.

The ministry's website already had a Taiwanese map of 1970 using the same name.

Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said that putting the 1969 map on the website was aimed at showing both Japan and its neighbors have historically considered the island group in the East China Sea as Japanese territory.

Foreign Ministry's 1969 China map identifies Senkaku Islands by Japanese name

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