Daito Islands (大東諸島 Daitō Shotō) are three eastern islands of Okinawa Islands. From north to south, the islands are: Okinawa Island (沖縄本島 Okinawa-hontō, the main island of Okinawa) is the largest of the Ryukyu Islands at the edge of the East China Sea, helping to define the seas boundary with the open Pacific Ocean. ...
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Japanese writing Kanji æ¼¢å— Kana ä»®å Hiragana 平仮å Katakana 片仮å Uses Furigana 振り仮å Okurigana é€ã‚Šä»®å Romaji ãƒãƒ¼ãƒžå— Kanji ( æ¼¢å—?, literally Han characters) are Chinese characters used in Japanese. ... Japanese writing Kanji 漢字 Kana 仮名 Hiragana 平仮名 Katakana 片仮名 Uses Furigana 振り仮名 Okurigana 送り仮名 Romaji ローマ字 The title given to this article lacks diacritics because of certain technical limitations. ... This article explains the meaning of area as a physical quantity. ...
Kita, minami, and oki means, respectively, "north," "south," and "shore" while daitō means "great east." Location of Ryukyu Islands Flag of same The Ryukyu Islands (ç‰çƒåˆ—島 RyÅ«kyÅ«-rettÅ), also known as the Nansei-shoto (å—西諸島 Nansei-shotÅ, which translates literally as the Southwest Islands), are an island chain stretching southwestward from the island of Kyushu in Japan. ...
The islands are approximately 120 nm northeast of Taiwan, 200 nm east of the Chinese mainland, and 200 nm southeast of Okinawa.
These islands were neither part of Taiwan nor part of the Pescadores Islands which were ceded to Japan from the Qing Dynasty of China in accordance with Article II of the Treaty of Shimonoseki which came into effect in May of 1895.
China argues that Okinotorishima island, the southernmost island in the Japanese archipelago, is merely a rock, not an island, in an attempt to nullify Japan's claim of an exclusive economic zone around the small island, which is under Tokyo jurisdiction.
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