It was reported that Taiwan Defend Diaoyutai activists, led by Huang Hsi-lin of the Baodiao coalition, sailing towards Diaoyutai in the early morning of 16 June. The Japanese coast guard ships tried to stop it. But Taiwanese coast guard vessels defended the boat of the activists.

I am weary of war. When my Japanese friends came to Singapore twenty years ago, I showed them the Japanese Occupation exhibition in Sentosa. I told them that our peaceful country and family were ruined by the Japanese soldiers. My friends felt sorry. We were born after the World War Two and we were not involved with the war. We had then become closed friends for 28 years. We used to share our thoughts and ideas frankly.

I visited Japan four times. I met and talked with the Japanese. They are very friendly. They are peace-loving as I am. My father ever told me that we forgive, but not to forget. Be prepared for foul in fair weather.

"The History of Diaoyutai" is one of my collections. The book was written by the Japanese historian Kiyoshi Inoue.

Kiyoshi Inoue was born in Kochi Prefecture in 1913. He was graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1936. He became a professor at Kyoto University in 1961 until his retirement in 1977. His research primarily involved Japanese history after the Meiji Restoration of 1868.

Kiyoshi Inoue visited Okinawa in November 1971. He wanted to find out the history of Senkaku Islands (Diaoyutai in Japanese).

He found that Japan seized these islands along with Taiwan and the Penghu Islands and incorporated them into Okinawa Prefecture as Japanese territory in 1895 as the victor in the war with Qing (China). In 1900, Tsune Kuroiwa, a teacher of the Okinawa Prefecture Normal School gave the Tiaoyu (Diaoyutai) and Chihwei Islands and the group of reefs between them the name of Senkaku Islands.

Hence, Kiyoshi Inoue held that one should reject the name Senkaku Islands, which was adopted by Japanese Militarism after seizing them from China. Use the only correct name in history, namely, the Tiaoyu (Diaoyutai) Island.

The Cairo Declaration jointly issued by China, the United States and British during World War II stipulates the return to China by Japan of all the territory she had stolen from China during and after the Japan-China war, including Taiwan and Manchuria.
Why the rulers are making a clamour that the Senkaku Islands are Japanese territory?

Kiyoshi Inoue thought that:
The clamour was an attempt to drag the Japanese people into the militarist, anti-China whirlwind.
Proceeding from the Japanese people stand of opposition to militarism, one should reject the name Senkaku Islands, which was adopted by Japanese militarism after seizing them from China, and use the only correct name in history, namely, the Tiaoyu Island (Diaoyutai) or the Tiaoyu (Diaoyu) Archipelago represented by the Tiaoyu Island (Diaoyutai) and including Chihwei Yu to the east and all the islands in between. This is the only correct name.

After reading the news, I was touched by the activists and the action of Taiwan coast guard vessels.
Survival of the Fittest

Well done, Hsiao Ma Ke, Taiwan Coast Guard, and the "Happy Family" Baodiao activitists!