English: (This was a news article on current events at the time of publication.)
Article from the People's Daily, 1953
The first sentence reads (in Chinese) "the Ryukyu Islands are located northeast of our Taiwan Islands... including Senkaku Shoto." The image comes from an unnamed user from blogspot.com[1].
(Excerpt, provisional translation by Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan)
"Battle of people in the Ryukyu Islands against the U.S. occupation
The Ryukyu Islands lie scattered on the sea between the Northeast of Taiwan of our State and the Southwest of Kyushu, Japan. They consist of 7 groups of islands; the Senkaku Islands, the w:en:Sakishima Islands, the Daito Islands, the w:en:Okinawa Islands, the Oshima Islands, the w:en:Tokara Islands and the Osumi Islands. Each of them consists of a lot of small and large islands and there are more than 50 islands with names and about 400 islands without names. Overall they cover 4,670 square kilometers. The largest of them is the Okinawa Island in the Okinawa Islands, which covers 1,211 square kilometers. The second largest is the Amami Oshima Island in the Oshima Islands, which covers 730 square kilometers. The w:en:Ryukyu Islands stretch over 1,000 kilometers, inside of which is our East China Sea (the East Sea in Chinese) and outside of which is the high seas of the w:en:Pacific Ocean."
2010-09-18 15:05 John Smith's 647×574× (83902 bytes) {{PD-PRC-exempt|type=documents}} Article from the Renmin Ribao, 1953 The first sentence reads (in Chinese) "the Ryukyu Islands are located northeast of our Taiwan Islands... including Senkaku Shoto."
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