Recently, in addition to the frequent provocations by the Philippines in the waters near Scarborough Shoal and Ren'ai Jiao, little Japan has not been idle, and on the 9th, a number of Japanese ships illegally intruded into the territorial waters of China's Diaoyu Islands and were warned and driven away by our coast guard ships
Diaoyu Islands are about 358 kilometers away from Wenzhou, Zhejiang, about 385 kilometers away from Fuzhou, Fujian, about 190 kilometers away from Keelung, Taiwan, and about 150 kilometers away from the Ryukyu Islands.
We often say that Diaoyu Island is actually a sea area, including many large and small islands, the most important of which are 8 islands, namely: Diaoyu Island, North Island, South Island, Huangwei Island, North Island, South Island, Feiyu, Chiwei Yu, they are all uninhabited islands, after 2012 by China under the actual control but no garrison, our coast guard ships in the nearby waters to carry out regular patrols, and Japan also frequently patrols in the nearby waters, and even will break into the territorial waters of the Diaoyu Islands to try to land on the islands, the Diaoyu Islands archipelago 8 main islands in the largest area is the main island Diaoyu Islands, the area of 391 square kilometers.
Geographically, the Ryukyu Islands actually include four parts, namely the Amami Islands (1,240 square kilometers), the Okinawa Islands (1,414 square kilometers), the Sakishima Islands (818 square kilometers), and the Daito Islands (44 square kilometers).The current Okinawa Prefecture includes the Okinawa Islands, the Sakishima Islands and the Daito Islands, in addition to the Amami Islands, which belonged to Japan after the Ming Dynasty, the Daito Islands are uninhabited islands, and the Okinawa Islands and the Sakishima Islands were called the Ryukyu Kingdom in the Qing Dynasty, and were vassal states of the Qing Dynasty, and were annexed by Japan after the Meiji Restoration.
After World War II, the Ryukyu Islands were actually occupied by the United States, and in December 1953, Japan privately fought for the United States, and the U.S. military handed over all the Amami Islands north of Yoron Island to Japan, and was assigned to the jurisdiction of Kagoshima Prefecture in Japan, and the Ryukyu Islands belonged to the international trusteeship under the actual jurisdiction of the U.S. military, until 1972, after the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States, the U.S. military directly handed over the Ryukyu Islands and the Diaoyu Islands to Japan in order to avoid disputes, and Japan established Okinawa Prefecture under the actual jurisdiction.
After 2012, China took back the actual control of the Diaoyu Islands, and Okinawa Prefecture was permanently occupied by Japan, and then Japan developed the uninhabited island of Daito Islands and included it in Okinawa Prefecture, which is what we are today