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China's Senkaku claim has basis: Hatoyama

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Former Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, in an interview aired June 25, indicated that, from Beijing's point of view, the Japan-held Senkaku Islands are Chinese territory based on the 1943 Cairo Declaration issued by the Allies.

In the interview, aired June 25 in China with Hong Kong's Phoenix Television, Hatoyama said it was unavoidable that China would state that Japan stole the uninhabited islets in the East China Sea.

Hatoyama, 66, was in power from 2009 to 2010 as head of the Democratic Party of Japan. (Kyodo, The Japan Times)

鳩山由紀夫元首相、尖閣諸島問題で中国に理解示す発言

鳩山由紀夫元首相が中国で放送されたテレビ番組で、尖閣諸島を中国の領土とする中国政府の主張が、第二次大戦の連合軍が1943年に出したカイロ宣言に基づいている、と述べた。

The Japan Times ST: July 5, 2013