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- 1940 February 6, “13 Rescued from Wrecked Plane”, in Victoria Daily Times[1], volume 96, number 31, Victoria, B.C., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14, column 1:
- A rescue ship headed toward Formosa today with the 13 persons who lived through the wrecking of a Japanese airways land plane in a forced landing on Uotsuri Island.
The stranded crew of four and nine passengers were sighted by the ship along the beach, 110 miles north of Formosa.
- [1962, “Senkaku-gunto”, in Leon E. Seltzer, editor, The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[2], Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1733, column 1:
- Senkaku-gunto (sānʹkäko͝o-go͞ontō), small, uninhabited island group (□ 8) of Sakishima Isls., in the Ryukyus, in East China Sea, 90 mi. NNW of Ishigaki; comprises 5 coral isls. and scattered islets. Uotsuri-shima (2.5 mi. long, 1 mi. wide) is largest isl. Generally low. Rattan-palm and banyan trees. Visited by inhabitants of Ishigaki-shima.]
- 1999, Stephen J. Anderson, “Japan's Views of Northeast Asia Regional Economic Cooperation: Bilateral Priorities and Multilateral Experiments”, in Tsuneo Akaha, editor, Politics and Economics in Northeast Asia: Nationalism and Regionalism in Contention[4], Macmillan Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 89–90:
- While diplomats sought quiet solutions, radicals built a lighthouse on Uotsuri, a small island in the disputed territory that is jointly claimed but solely patrolled by Japan. […] A group of Japanese politicians including Shingo Nishimura, a Diet member then of the New Frontier Party (NFP) and now of the Liberal Party (LP), landed on Uotsuri and raised the Japanese flag. […] In response, on May 26 a group from Hong Kong and Taiwan attempted to land on Uotsuri, but were stopped by Japanese coast guard vessels.
- 2004 March 26, Kenji Hall, “Japan Deports Seven Chinese Activists”, in AP News[5], archived from the original on 2023-05-18[6]:
- Japanese authorities questioned the seven Chinese activists after detaining them for their allegedly illegal visit to the isle of Uotsuri.
- 2012 August 19, Keith Bradsher, Martin Fackler, “Chinese Take to Streets as Dispute With Japan Escalates”, in The New York Times[7], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2012-08-19, Asia Pacific[8]:
- Japanese activists raised flags early Sunday on Uotsuri Island, part of the small archipelago known in Japan as Senkaku and in China as Diaoyu. […]
Even as the protests began unfolding Sunday morning, a group of conservative Japanese activists might have planted the seeds for further anger in China. About 10 of the activists, including local assembly members from Tokyo, swam ashore to the disputed island, Uotsuri. While Japan controls the island chain, the Tokyo government restricts access to avoid inflaming regional tensions. The 10 who landed Sunday did so without permission, and were later questioned by the Japanese Coast Guard.
- 2013 January 28, J. Michael Cole, “Patch reaffirms sovereignty over Diaoyutais”, in Taipei Times[9], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2013-02-04, Front Page, page 1[10]:
- Meanwhile, Japanese media reported at the weekend that a Coast Guard Administration vessel was seen operating in waters near the Diaoyutais, coming within 39km off Uotsuri Island, the largest islet in the chain, known as the Senkakus by the Japanese.
- 2013 December 2, Kyle Mizokami, “If China’s Airspace Grab Turns Violent, Here’s How the Dogfight Could Go Down”, in Foreign Policy[11], archived from the original on 2015-04-03[12]:
- The plan is to fly west, overfly the Senkaku Islands of Uotsuri and Kuba, and then return to Okinawa. The F-15s have their sensors off, with radar coverage provided by the E-2 radar plane orbiting west of Okinawa.
- 2014 January 2, Junko Fujita, Ben Blanchard, “Chinese balloonist lands in midst of isle dispute with Japan”, in William Mallard, Robert Birsel, editors, Reuters[13], archived from the original on 2016-12-02, World News[14]:
- On the day Xu, identified as a native of Hebei province, was fished out of the water 22 km (14 miles) south of Uotsuri island, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reiterated his commitment to a stronger military and to revising the pacifist constitution.
- 2016 August 11, “Chinese fishing boat collides with Greek freighter near Senkakus, 6 rescued”, in The Mainichi[15], archived from the original on 2016-08-12[16]:
- At around 5:30 a.m., crewmembers of a JCG patrol boat received an SOS from the 106,726-ton freighter Anangel Courage. The patrol vessel and a JCG plane found the freighter on the high seas about 67 kilometers away from Uotsuri Island, one of the Senkaku Islands, which are also claimed by China.
- 2017, Yongwook Ryu, “The Nationalist Threat to the East Asian Peace”, in Elin Bjarnegård, Joakim Kreutz, editors, Debating the East Asian Peace: What it is. How it came about. Will it last?[17], NIAS Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 251–252:
- On 13 December 2012, China sent a State Oceanic Administration aircraft (Harbin Y-12) to fly over the territorial space of Uotsuri Island, one of the disputed islands, thereby creating a dangerous situation of contingency and escalation, especially after the Japanese government scrambled its fighter jets to drive it out.
- 2021 December 27, Kyodo, Julian Ryall, “Japan simulated ‘foreign’ invasion of Diaoyu Islands in East China Sea with drill involving Self-Defence Forces, coastguard and police”, in South China Morning Post[18], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 May 2023, This Week in Asia / Politics[19]:
- Several government sources told Kyodo News that a drill involving the Self-Defence Forces (Japan’s de facto military), coastguard and police took place at an uninhabited island in Nagasaki prefecture with land features resembling Uotsuri Island, one of the islets that make up the Diaoyu/Senkaku islands in the East China Sea.