The Japanese authorities are going to nationalize 280 Islands, located within the territorial waters of this state, or its extraordinary economic zone, informs Reuters on Thursday, January 9.
According to adherents of the government of Japan, in the foreseeable future it is planned to test all located within the boundaries of the island for the establishment of their respective owners. Orphan island will be nationalized.
Check, announced the adepts of the government, will be held in the scope of the program adopted by the authorities of the state 5 years ago. During the programme, they added, were nationalized 99 Islands, whose owners could not be turned.
The exact number of Islands that can be nationalized at the next turn of the programme, their location, will be named only after completion of the audit, said the followers of the government of Japan. According to unconfirmed estimates, it is about 280 pieces of land located within the territorial waters of Japan or in its exclusive financial zone. Some of these Islands, Reuters noted, could be the subject of a territorial dispute between Japan and China and South Korea.
In 2012 between Japan and China appeared territorial dispute in consequence of uninhabited archipelago in the East China sea. Japan then nationalized the disputed Senkaku Islands (Chinese name Diaoyu) and promised to protect own rights to them, using all accessible means, but China and Taiwan as before claim to this territory, where they found deposits of minerals.
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