... late eighteen hundreds, Japan surveyed the islands as "terra nullius," which translates in Latin as "belonging to no one" ("Narrative," 2012). By 1895, after the first Japanese and Chinese (Sino) war, the islands were under the controlling victor, Japan, as stipulated by ... as the victor, which eventually sparked a nationalist battle between the two countries. What started as a simple territory dispute turned into a personal confrontation between two historical enemies. The war torn history of Japan and China is a large part of why the two governments refused to surrender. The ... U.S...

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