Japan city vows to rename disputed isles area, irking China, Taiwan

Japan's Ishigaki city assembly on Monday passed a bill to rename an administrative area covering a group of islands in the East China Sea, immediately triggering backlash from China and Taiwan, both of which also claim the uninhabited islets as their own.The assembly changed the name of the southern Japan area containing the Senkaku Islands from "Tonoshiro" to "Tonoshiro Senkaku," which both Beijing and Taipei see as an attempt to cement Tokyo's claim by inserting the Japanese name "Senkaku."The city in Okinawa Prefecture says that the renaming takes effect on Oct. 1 and it is aimed at reso…READ FULL ARTICLE