The Senkaku Islands are administered by Japan, which incorporated them in 1895. China and Taiwan also claim the islands. Both asserted sovereignty claims in 1971, shortly after a United Nations report cited studies suggesting the possibility of large oil reserves in the surrounding seabed, increasing the strategic significance of the islands.
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