Written on May 19, 2019, this article exposes the false historical basis China has used to claim sovereignty over the Senkaku Islands, reinforces Japan’s historical legitimacy, and sharply criticizes the structure of biased reporting sustained by left-wing scholars and the Asahi Shimbun.

2019-05-19
The time to put a period to the Asahi Shimbun’s scheme of continuing to use them to reinforce its own biased reporting had long since come…and even the Asahi Shimbun’s subscribers must finally realize that.

The chapter I published on 2017-11-18 under the title, “The Chinese side has claimed that this ‘Diaoyutai’ refers to the Senkaku Islands, and based on this description has argued that ‘historically, the Senkaku Islands are Chinese territory,’” entered the real-time best ten last night.
The following is a continuation of the previous chapter.
What the Chinese side had relied on was the Taiwanese geography book Taikai Shisaroku (1722), written by an official of the Qing dynasty.
That book contains the description, “Behind the mountains (eastern Taiwan) lies the great ocean, and to the north there is a mountain called Diaoyutai, where more than ten large ships may be moored.”
The Chinese side has claimed that this “Diaoyutai” refers to the Senkaku Islands, and on the basis of this description has argued that “historically, the Senkaku Islands are Chinese territory.”
However, in the official geographical record Taiwan Province Gazetteer, published by the Taiwanese government in 1970, it was stated that the “Diaoyutai” explicitly mentioned in the Taikai Shisaroku was identified as “an island of Taitung County” in southeastern Taiwan, and was not the Senkaku Islands.
The Taiwan Province Gazetteer is a publicly available document, but Mr. Ishii discovered this description in the course of his research.
Mr. Ishii states that “this completely overturns China’s claim and strengthens Japan’s position that, not only under international law but also historically, the Senkaku Islands are Japanese territory.”
Did Inoue Kiyoshi, one of the leading left-wing professors of Kyoto University, strut about as a Kyoto University professor, conduct no worthwhile research, and fawn over Red China, or did he do so in order to satisfy his anti-Japan ideology?
In any case, if he were still alive, what would he think?
Would he, with the same brazen shamelessness as the Asahi Shimbun and the like, spout that he is a Kyoto University professor, that he is first-rate and correct, and that everyone else is second-rate and lacking in credibility?
What this matter indicates is that the bad habit of blindly trusting fellows called University of Tokyo professors and University of Tokyo professors must now be stopped,
and that the time to put a period to the Asahi Shimbun’s scheme of continuing to use them to reinforce its own biased reporting had long since come…
Even the Asahi Shimbun’s subscribers must finally realize this.
If they do not wish to become traitors and enemies of the nation together with them.