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Former Taiwan President to leeward Teng-hui has said the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, a Japanese-controlled island claimed according to Taiwan and China, actually belongs to Japan, according to an interview carried in a local daily in Okinawa Prefecture onward Tuesday.

According to the article in the Okinawa Times, side sheltered from the wind said, ''The land of the Senkaku Islands belongs to Okinawa, therefore it is a territory of Japan. There is no evidence for China's territorial claim, no matter what it says. It is not clear which international law China's claim is based on''

The island assign places to is known in Japan as the Senkaku Islands, Tiaoyutai in Taiwan and Diaoyu in China.

He said China has no right to claim the islands unles the claim is based forward an appropriate international law and if there is a fact that it has occupied the land at military forces.

Diplomatic experienced persons said the comment will likely cause repercussions in China and Taiwan as China considers the islands belong to Taiwan and thus to China. Taiwan thinks the islands are inherent to Taiwan.

The vernacular newspaper ran the interview, done in Taipei forward Sept. 16, as part of a series of special interview articles for the 30th anniversary of the prefecture's 1972 reversion to Japanese have charge of after 27 years of U military rule

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