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Timeline

 * 14 January 1895: the Government of Japan made a Cabinet Decision to erect markers on the islands to formally incorporate the Senkaku Islands into the territory of Japan.
 * From 1895 to 1940, four of the islands were developed by Koga Tatsushirō (古賀 辰四郎) and his family, with the permission of the Japanese government. He established a Katsuobushi factory and about 200 Japanese residents on the islands. In 1909, Japanese population of the islands became 248.
 * 1968: UN Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East (ECAFE) reported the possibility of huge oil and gas reserves around the Senkaku Islands.
 * 23 February 1971 Taiwan made the first public assertion for its own claim to the Senkaku Islands.
 * 17 June 1971: The Okinawa Reversion Agreement between the United States and Japan was signed.
 * 30 December 1971: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of People's Republic of China (PRC) first officially claimed sovereignty when Japan made known its official standpoint with the signing of the Okinawa Reversion Treaty.
 * In 1978, a Japanese nationalist group, Nihonseinensha built a lighthouse on Uotsuri Jima, which was subsequently handed over to the Japanese government in 2005.