Tokyo, May 9 (ANI): Two scholars from a Chinese research center have suggested re-examining the ownership of the Japanese island chain that includes Okinawa.
The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences researchers said in a commentary published in the People's Daily, the Communist Party's main newspaper, that agreements reached between the Allies during World War II meant that the ownership of the Ryukyu islands may be in question.
According to the Japan Times, they said Japan's loss in the war nullified an 1895 treaty in which China ceded territory to Japan.
Zhang Haipeng and Li Guoqiang wrote in the commentary that it was time to revisit the unresolved historical issue of the Ryukyu Islands.
A move to reconsider ownership of the Ryukyus would add to strains between China and Japan, as the two nations each assert their claims over the uninhabited Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea.
Okinawa, the largest island in the Ryukyu chain, hosts several U.S. military installations.
Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said that the Ryukyus unquestionably belong to them.(ANI)
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