Uotsuri

English

Etymology

From Japanese 魚釣(うおつり) (uotsuri).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌuːoʊˈtsʊəɹi/

Proper noun

Uotsuri

1. Short for Uotsuri Island.
   • 1996 October 5, Robert Whymant, “Tokyo tries to calm islands row”, in The Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, Overseas News, page 15, column 2:

     The federation yesterday vowed to occupy Uotsuri, one of the islands, and build a permanent structure to house six members.

   • 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^[2], 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^[3], archived from the original on 2023-05-18‎^[4]:

     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^[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2012-08-19, Asia Pacific‎^[6]:

     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 December 2, Kyle Mizokami, “If China’s Airspace Grab Turns Violent, Here’s How the Dogfight Could Go Down”, in Foreign Policy‎^[7], archived from the original on 2015-04-03‎^[8]:

     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.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Uotsuri.

Synonyms

• (from Mandarin Chinese) Diaoyutai

Translations

island

• Japanese: 魚釣島
• Marathi: उओत्सुरी (uotsurī)

Further reading

• Uotsuri at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• “Uotsuri” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.