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As part of its wider military build up along the Japanese archipelagos in the East China Sea, Japan activates a new radar station on the island of Yonaguni that is close to the disputed Senkaku Islands.
2016-03-28

Tokyo residents demand that the city's municipal government return private donations it had amassed in order to purchase three of the disputed Senkaku Islands. The central government preempted Tokyo's move by acquiring the islands itself earlier this month. [http:--mainichi.jp-english-english-newsselect-news-20120927p2a00m0na004000c.html ("Mainichi Shimbun")]date=August 2019
2012-09-27

President of Taiwan Ma Ying-jeou praises the flotilla of fishermen that sailed to waters around Senkaku Islands earlier in the week in order to assert Taiwan's territorial claim. [http:--www3.nhk.or.jp-daily-english-20120927_24.html (NHK World)]date=August 2019
2012-09-27

Three Chinese surveillance ships enter Japanese territorial waters near the Senkaku Islands. [https:--web.archive.org-web-20120928071848-http:--www.yomiuri.co.jp-dy-national-T120924003925.htm ("Yomiuri Shimbun")] [http:--mainichi.jp-english-english-newsselect-news-20120924p2g00m0dm029000c.html (Kyodo News via "Mainichi Shimbun")]date=August 2019
2012-09-24

Japan sends its vice foreign minister, Chikao Kawai, to China in order to improve the status of relations between the two countries.
2012-09-24

China cancels events commemorating the 40th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations with Japan.
2012-09-24

Japan's former ambassador to China, Yuji Miyamato, has emerged as the leading candidate to replace the late Shinichi Nishimiya, who died last Sunday.
2012-09-18

Ten Chinese surveillance ships sailed into the contiguous zone off the Senkaku Islands, following a similar incursion by a fishery monitoring ship earlier in the day.
2012-09-18

China's Ministry of Defence says the nationalization of the disputed Senkaku Islands by Japan is "illegal and invalid"; that it would closely monitor the "evolution of the situation" and "reserve the right to take reciprocal measures".
2012-09-11